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The Best Places to Work …and Play: Anybody Work Here?

How top Seattle companies 
blow off steam.

April 22, 2011 Published in the May 2011 issue of Seattle Met

WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACKPopCap Games had its first $100 million year in 2010—thanks in part to its popular online games Plants vs. Zombies and Zuma

WORK HARD PLAY HARDER
Design firm McKinstry has it all at its SoDo site: The prefabrication shop is next door to corporate headquarters, which features an employee gym and indoor basketball

Did we mention the driving range on the roof?

READING A KINDLE 
BY THE FIRE
Though Amazon is known for its frugality—those infamous do

A dog (and human) watering hole.

Games in the programmers’ “library”.

GAME ON
Microsoft’s Redmond campus rivals the University of Washington’s, with soccer and baseball fields, basketball, volleyball, and

   

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