Post Comment - Blue's News

Leaked Valve Employee Handbook?

[Apr 21, 2012, 1:38 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

PC Gamer reproduces what's purported to be a handbook for new employees at Valve, the privately held video game developer that created Half-Life half a lifetime ago. This appears to be bona fide, and offers additional details and insights on the company's unusual hierarchy and way of conducting business.

Post Comment
Enter the details of the comment you'd like to post in the boxes below and click the button at the bottom of the form.

16.

Re: Leaked Valve Employee Handbook?

Apr 21, 2012, 19:07

Dev

killer_roach wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 18:10: sigh Yet another posting with the same "four years experience required" BS... really getting annoying for somebody just out of grad school when everyone wants 3-5 years experience for most any position. So you going to just give up on it then? I doubt valve is a stickler for that, if someone could impress them enough, they'd probably hire them. For instance, people who do good maps have impressed them before into hiring them. So mappers impress with maps, staying on the same vein, I can think of a number of ways an economist could possibly impress a game company such as valve. Here's one I'll toss out for free, deep insightful papers written on game economies. I'm not going to do your job for you, if you want it bad enough, I'm sure you can think of things. This comment was edited on Apr 21, 2012, 19:27.

Subject

Comment [quote="Dev"Apr 21, 2012, 19:07][quote="killer_roach"Apr 21, 2012, 18:10]*sigh* Yet another posting with the same "four years experience required" BS... really getting annoying for somebody just out of grad school when everyone wants 3-5 years experience for most any position. [/quote] So you going to just give up on it then? I doubt valve is a stickler for that, if someone could impress them enough, they'd probably hire them. For instance, people who do good maps have impressed them before into hiring them. So mappers impress with maps, staying on the same vein, I can think of a number of ways an economist could possibly impress a game company such as valve. Here's one I'll toss out for free, deep insightful papers written on game economies. I'm not going to do your job for you, if you want it bad enough, I'm sure you can think of things. [/quote]

;) :( :o %) :) :| ;P X| :D More

If you have a signature set up, it will be automatically appended to your comment.
If you don't already have a Blue's News user account, you can sign up here.
Forgotten your password? Click here.

Email me when this topic is updated.

Special Codes

b[bold text]b
i[italic text]i
u[underline text]u
-[~~strikethrough text~~]-
c[code text]c
+[bullet point]+
q[quote text (indented)]q
[quote="Author"]quote text (indented)[/quote]
[url=Link]text[/url]
r{red text}r
g{green text}g
b{blue text}b
m{maroon text}m
s{secret text (shows in the background colour)}s

Forum Rules

Disagree all you want but attacks of a personal nature will not be tolerated.
Ethnic slurs and homophobic language will not be tolerated.
Do not post spam, links to warez sites, or instructions on how to obtain pirated software.
Abusing the forums in any manner that could be construed as 'griefing' will not be tolerated.