My thoughts: 1. If you bring out LEGO while introducing yourself to a new team, you're going to seem less down to earth and approachable and more like a childr

My thoughts: 1. If you bring out LEGO while introducing yourself to a new team, you're going to seem less down to earth and approachable and more like a children's social worker. 2. I feel that hiding serious topics behind infantile representations is only going to jade your mature staff, and lead to a lack of trust as they would feel patronised and discouraged from straight and open conversation. 3. Not that I work in such an environment, but it seems like a lot of startups go for a light and playful atmosphere but end up with a very forced 'have fun... or ELSE' culture in a failed attempt to Google themselves. I feel the same failure often occurs with service industry companies trying to follow the Disney management style. Just my two cents. For the record ping pong tables and rubik's cubes rub me the wrong way also.