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What's It Really like Working at Valve?

People Make Games interviewed 16 current and former Valve employees to examine how the company's no-bosses, no-titles structure works in practice, and where it falls short.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as well-researched, interview-based coverage of the Valve model and its failures, often linked in threads about Valve and flat organizations.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
People Make Games
Topic
valve company culture
Format
documentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2023–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • For people interested in this topic, the "People Make Games" channel on YouTube have a couple of related videos with original research/interviews: * "How Valve is Profiting from Steam's Back-Door Casinos": < [LINK] > * "Working at Valve: 'A Fearless Adventure' or 'Lord of the …

    follower on Hacker News · 2023-03
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  • They care about whatever Valve employees are interested in / is perceived as creating most value (not always the same as creating most value). Valve has a system of weighted peer feedback (impacting salary and sometimes continued employment) that encourages follow-the-leader mentality despite their supposedly …

    asmor on Hacker News · 2023-04
    In Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

  • If you want some more insight into what working at Valve is actually like, People Make Games released a great video last year [1] where they talked to a bunch of current and former employees. While there are people who can thrive at Valve, their …

    ARandumGuy on Hacker News · 2024-08
    In Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]

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