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What's It Really like Working at Valve?

People Make Games · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Management, leadership & organizationsTech company stories & documentariesGaming culture & analysis

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “have a couple of related videos with original research/interviews”

    Interviews on working at Valve

    follower, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “Facebook is aggressively going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's”

  2. “People Make Games made an enlightening documentary on the Valve model and where it fails”

    Documentary on Valve's peer-feedback model and its failures

    asmor, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful”

  3. “People Make Games released a great video last year [1] where they talked to a bunch of current and former employees.”

    Interviews with Valve employees on its flat structure

    ARandumGuy, 2024-08 · Recommendation · in “Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]”

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Topics: valve, flat organization, game industry, employee interviews, management

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