Electronic Arts

Fun subject matter, friendly, smart people, lots of interest groups to help you find your crowd. It's really easy to hop between teams internally. On a good team:

• Good work-life balance.
• Management is open to you working on what you want to work on.
• Lots of growth and learning opportunities.
• They will listen to and act on feedback, both about the team and individuals.

Lots of business lingo. Leadership just kind of does stuff. Not great business models. The bad people are really bad.

On a bad team:

• Crunch
• Unable to handle criticism
• Will shove you into whatever is on fire
• Sudden reorgs will send you to new teams

The bad teams I've been on have been that way either because of a couple of bad people on the team or the team was viewed as 'failing' by upper management, so they would be given unreasonable deadlines and/or no resources.

My advice? Get rid of people who other employees complain about, and if a team is failing, just nix it rather than having a long, drawn-out debacle about it, because they'll try to 'prove' themselves by crunching.