only the bonus mattered because they were paying your weekly salary on time?
At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
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Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Valve really have 7 figure bonuses? That's quite impressive if so. Wonder what it would take to get that -- do you have to launch/invent a new, successful microtransaction store? Can't imagine it's easy based on that twitter thread.
Wonder what it would take to get that -- do you have to launch/invent a new, successful microtransaction store? You have to make a really cool looking hat for Team Fortress 2.
You mean “choose from one of the really cool hats made by the community and add it to the game”.
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good God yes. Once my team owned a service that did X. Among it's functionality, it had an API that, as a side effect, stored some data that could be retrieved. Sadly, this service had no validation that the data being input made any sense in the context of what this service did. A developer on a neighboring team had a big promo project on the go. As a simple hack, and as a way to save time, his project used our serv…
How is this his fault? Your service had poor validation or design and was used in ways it was intended to. You knew this but still didn't patch it?
You can pretty trivially break into my house with some cheap tools off ebay and a YouTube video showing you how to pick the lock.
No one suggests I am at fault if you break into my house and steal my stuff.
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#124Working Backwards. Best Amazon content you will ever find.
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's evidence that he over reacts to minor issues, marking his criticisms in general as not particularly trustworthy.
I don't know either of you, so I don't have a dog in a fight. But when you start a post off with " so and so is a phenomenal asshole", You should know that a reasonable person reads that as an ad hominem attack, regardless of how you intended it.
> But when you start a post off with "so and so is a phenomenal asshole", You should know that a reasonable person reads that as an ad hominem attack
I would expect a reasonable person to read through the entire comment and not just the first sentence, before assessing the validity of the point the author was making.
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#126A tech company in Bellevue Washington with a "shadowy and illusory "peer review" system" - this is Valve we're talking about, right? (fits his Twitter bio)
Yeah, around a decade ago this also made the news: "Valve fires Jeri Ellsworth, who was developing Steam Box game controllers"
She was working on AR which she was able to take after she was fired and form TiltFive https://www.tiltfive.com/
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know either of you, so I don't have a dog in a fight. But when you start a post off with " so and so is a phenomenal asshole", You should know that a reasonable person reads that as an ad hominem attack, regardless of how you intended it.
> But when you start a post off with "so and so is a phenomenal asshole", You should know that a reasonable person reads that as an ad hominem attack I would expect a reasonable person to read through the entire comment and not just the first sentence, before assessing the validity of the point the author was making.
The rest of the comment supports the first sentence.
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#128The idea of a six or seven figure bonus for a software developer is - no matter what level of their career they're in - absolutely bonkers to me. Completely beyond my ken.
Separate from that, who in their right mind would enter into a contract to make so much of their salary optional for their employer to pay them?
And yeah, if you set them up as the reward for a prisoner's dilemma, of course you'll see insanely bad behavior.
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That’s not a problem in California because it’s not possible to buy anything to get the mortgage in the first place.
So all houses are cash only?!
They are if you’re competing with someone paying cash. But that doesn’t matter either, the question is if there’s any for sale in the first place.
Re: At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, he posted a similar set of tweets back in 2018: https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...
keep in mind that he is literally the only one who talks about the company that way from everyone whose ever worked there (many, many have left for various reasons since). I also can't help but not overlook that he's an UFO nut. can't trust info from someone who can warp reality in a way to see only what fits his own preconceived notions even if they fly in the face of basic facts.
> keep in mind that he is literally the only one who talks about the company that way from everyone whose ever worked there (many, many have left for various reasons since).
That's not true.
There's been lots of criticism coming at Valve's management style over the years: There are many people who _hate_ it, but also many people who love it. It really depends on the type of person you are. If you really really dislike bureaucracy Valve's a great place to be, but also don't expect them to enact any quality-of-life systems: If your coworker wants you dead, then that's something you yourself have to deal with.
This is also why you see a lot of different opinions when looking through e.g. glassdoor: Some people that do the murdering love it there and thrive, but that system only works if people are there that can be murdered. Some people I know have described the atmosphere as "prison yard style": You trade rigid bureaucracy against a "you have to know who you have to know" bureaucracy. Richard Geldreich's account lines up pretty well to what I have heard about valve's emergent self-organization system.
A couple of years ago there was a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41XgkLKYuic that summarized the working environment.