Yahtzee visits Valve...
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles...ve-a-Travelogue
"I wonder how Valve gets by with no traditional corporate structure, no defined roles, no orders from on high. The theory is that every employee is carefully analyzed to make sure they have both a great personal passion for the medium and that they're sufficiently grounded in reality to see a product through to the end. But there's got to be more to it than that. Good leadership, perhaps. The right words in the right place and making sure there are always plenty of brownies in the kitchen."
-I want that before I ever retire
"I wonder how Valve gets by with no traditional corporate structure, no defined roles, no orders from on high. The theory is that every employee is carefully analyzed to make sure they have both a great personal passion for the medium and that they're sufficiently grounded in reality to see a product through to the end. But there's got to be more to it than that. Good leadership, perhaps. The right words in the right place and making sure there are always plenty of brownies in the kitchen."
-I want that before I ever retire
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-I want that before I ever retire
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No kidding, sounds like a freakin amazing place to work.
What was it? Well if they have all these nice things, like a fitness room, free coke in the fridge etc then they also expect you to use it, which basicly means that you will be working 16-18 hour a day (or at least you are at your work-place that long each day).
envy me.
""Medium," "Large" and "King Size"? What the fuck is that? How the fuck can "Medium" be the smallest? Do you even know what the word "Medium" means? This is why you're all so fat, you bunch of road sign-shooting Yankee pillocks."
I like it when beer turns up in the fridge ...
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Happens every Friday. And I have free coke and drinks in the fridge w/out expectation of >8hr days. I was more or less commenting on the way its employee's are regarded.
I like feeling like I'm treated as an adult. On this project we haven't really had much mandatory crunch - maybe five days, total. We all knew what we needed to get done and have paced ourselves accordingly, and management trusted us to do so. A lot of us end up staying late to make deadlines, but it's our decision to do so - and that goes a long way towards making the long hours not feel as shitty.
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Bingo, I could quote this and say its the truth for the project I'm on as well. I've done about 3 days of OT total..
I like feeling like I'm treated as an adult. On this project we haven't really had much mandatory crunch - maybe five days, total. We all knew what we needed to get done and have paced ourselves accordingly, and management trusted us to do so. A lot of us end up staying late to make deadlines, but it's our decision to do so - and that goes a long way towards making the long hours not feel as shitty.
[/ QUOTE ]Same here. I only see myself leaving for another place that would questions my every click and make me Vogon every decision that needs to be made. I've had to deal with that in previous jobs and I really don't want to deal with that again. The only way I would leave would be to have the same atmosphere working on a game with subject mater that appeals to me more, or if the company goes under which it doesn't look that will happen any time soon. The drinks in the fridge, the snacks in the cupboard, the moral events, the stock options if the company ever goes public, those are all nice but not why I'm there.
With that said, Valve looks like a great place to work, it always has. It's weird knowing that just a few blocks away, hours and hours of my future enjoyment are being made.
Bingo, I could quote this and say its the truth for the project I'm on as well. I've done about 3 days of OT total..
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haha. we get the cokes in the fridge and all that, but i've done about 5 months of overtime.
I have that.
envy me.
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No, ENVY ME. We get PAID OT. ha ha haaaaaaaaaa.
:P
Or it was an IE only issue and other browsers like firefox don't eat posts.
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