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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 107 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When your employees are so efficient they start using their spare time to audit each other's efficiency on an industry-wide metric.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have heard that its not too hard to start your own project when working at valve.

Maybe it will turn into their next game, or a new steam feature or it will get canned.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that still accurate? Their employees handbook was legendary a decade ago, but since then there have been rumours that this isn't the case any longer, and that there were significant problems behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you can still work on whatever you want as long as GabeN wants it too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think that goes for most company structures

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I mean with that money printing machine and good reputation among users it's no doubt be cozy for devs to start stuff without having someone breath down their neck for costing too much money or too high of a risk.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I mean they have a finance team for sure, so I guess this is their job… However Steam does a really good job to stay in its borders of where they can provide a good service and do not milk the cow until half live 09 where they just repeat the story of half live 1-3 in a poor way