Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is a very creative environment.

Knowledge sharing is imbued into the corporate culture, which results in studios from around the world contributing new techniques and technologies to a central knowledge base.

Long hours at times. Despite the fact that they have a pretty poor public reputation for this, they do care about keeping the number of hours down. It's just that unfortunately, they always seem to get into a position where the project is late, there are technical challenges, and then here comes the crunch time.

Invest in project management techniques.

I don't know what the answer is, but the current mode of operation isn't working so well.