[snarfy]

These cultures are all artificial. I've worked at a handful of companies that all brought in the ping pong/foosball/shuffle board, and nobody plays them. It's always a ghost town.

Instead, employees will bring in their own toys like card games and basketball hoops, because that's what they like.

The culture happens because the employees themselves have the latitude and money to make it happen. The foosball table that they are all trying to mimic happened because some ceo/founder at a successful company always wanted one and brought one in for himself. Now it's offered as some kind of perk even though nobody likes the game. The perk should be extreme latitude and high pay. The culture will happen all by itself.

[Terretta]

Hmm. We play the shit out of our ping pong tables.

Engineers, product guys, engineering managers, department heads, everyone together, usually four up plus some onlookers. Not artificial at all.

We play the card and table games at each others' homes, usually after sous vide steaks or barbecue.

Our hangouts are nothing like Billions. :-)