It depends on the company for sure and can change over time. I think there are also often 2 tiers of employees at game companies. The ones who are there for the

It depends on the company for sure and can change over time. I think there are also often 2 tiers of employees at game companies. The ones who are there for the project (their choice or the company choice) and those they feel are the nucleus and treat well. And well if you're at a place like EA the size of the nucleus may be differen due to shifting across projects vs at a single project shop where there are no other projects and loss of the nucleus means the next project fails too.