Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company

Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company(old.reddit.com)

40 points by kelukelugames 7 years ago | 5 comments

Roritharr 7 years ago |

One of my earlierst HN Comments is describing my desire to work for Valve because their self-organized style seemed to be the utopia I always dreamed about. Back then I thought I didn't have what it takes to even Interview. Maybe I didn't, still I feel I've dodged a massive bullet.

et-al 7 years ago |

Thanks for sharing this. Might be helpful to link to the original Reddit thread [0] or the employee's Twitter [1]:

[0] - https://np.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_e...

[1] - https://twitter.com/richgel999

And here's a Pastebin mirror: https://pastebin.com/d199N7eY

(Admittedly I didn't read past the first block compiled by FloydiusMaximus.)

decker 7 years ago |

Words of wisdom over hundreds of tweets. I'd probably want to fire anyone that thinks this is a good idea.

adamcw 7 years ago | |

I think most of my concerns center around this being an impulsive stream of clearly stress based posts. I think a lot of really good conversation could have been raised, which I fear may be lost by a) the stream of conscious nature of the posts, and b) a lack of better editing or personal judgement on a bit of the content.

The frustration shines through, but so does a lot of "advice" about dealing with an unhealthy culture in an even more unhealthy way.

I wish the author the best, the little I know of his past work seems solid. I commend raising these issues, but it raises a few red flags with me in the manner of execution.

swaggyBoatswain 7 years ago | |

Yeah... he should've hashed it out in a complete blog post since its very hard to appreciate the thought process