Valve's in-house economist on how Valve hires, fires and pays its staff

[PCGamesN]

[url]http://www.pcgamesn.com/valves-house-economist-how-valve-hires-fires-and-pays-its-staff[/url]

[SweetSwifter]

Ohgod, they used /that/ photograph. :v:

Additionally, pretty interesting article. I always wondered how the firing thing went in their flat hierarchy structure.

[C O Y O T E]

[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;39721580]Ohgod, they used /that/ photograph. :v:[/QUOTE]

It fits though.

It's like he's saying "Ugh, fine, if you REAALLLY need to know..." in the most tired-parent way possible.

[Elowin]

Gabe looks so sad on that picture.

[Canary]

So the workers at Valve that got fired basically sat around procrastinating like when you try doing work at home...

[Cush]

[QUOTE=Canary;39721635]So the workers at Valve that got fired basically sat around procrastinating like when you try doing work at home...[/QUOTE]

Kind of and not exactly.

You'd have to be really self driven and decisive to work there, since you need to pick what you are working on today and get in with teams.

I can imagine some people really struggle under that kind of environment because they are so used to people being there to tell them what to do.

[ithon]

[QUOTE=Cushie;39721757]Kind of and not exactly.

You'd have to be really self driven and decisive to work there, since you need to pick what you are working on today and get in with teams.

I can imagine some people really struggle under that kind of environment because they are so used to people being there to tell them what to do.[/QUOTE]

That's not quite right you can be self driven but you have to bring your A game constantly. I'm not saying who told me this who works or has worked at valve but your | in your T has to be fast turnover, meaning that you might be great at what you do but you have give results quickly. Even if that means the talents that you were hired for are all being influenced by more influential people, (yes it's not as flat as they say, you will always find hierarchy in humans), arn't great to work in, it doesn't matter if they suck you need to bring your A game.

So if you're a great general coder which could work with most of the people there who didn't have trouble getting their masters at MIT, you're set for life. However if your job narrows you to a small fraction of valve and you take time in getting stuff right, you're screwed.

So if anyone who's an EE or mechanical wanting to get into valve or google, google is probably better in getting a more secure job.