Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
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Re: Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
#2Thanks for sharing this. Might be helpful to link to the original Reddit thread [0] or the employee's Twitter [1]:
[0] - https://np.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_e...
[1] - https://twitter.com/richgel999
And here's a Pastebin mirror: https://pastebin.com/d199N7eY
(Admittedly I didn't read past the first block compiled by FloydiusMaximus.)
Re: Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
#3Words of wisdom over hundreds of tweets. I'd probably want to fire anyone that thinks this is a good idea.
Re: Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
#4One of my earlierst HN Comments is describing my desire to work for Valve because their self-organized style seemed to be the utopia I always dreamed about. Back then I thought I didn't have what it takes to even Interview. Maybe I didn't, still I feel I've dodged a massive bullet.
Re: Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
#5Words of wisdom over hundreds of tweets. I'd probably want to fire anyone that thinks this is a good idea.
Fortunately for Gabe Newell, it's extremely difficult to fire him for running his own company this way, and indeed, this methodology likely only serves to cement his authority to remain relevant and in control of anything that truly matters.
Re: Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
#6Words of wisdom over hundreds of tweets. I'd probably want to fire anyone that thinks this is a good idea.
I think most of my concerns center around this being an impulsive stream of clearly stress based posts. I think a lot of really good conversation could have been raised, which I fear may be lost by a) the stream of conscious nature of the posts, and b) a lack of better editing or personal judgement on a bit of the content.
The frustration shines through, but so does a lot of "advice" about dealing with an unhealthy culture in an even more unhealthy way.
I wish the author the best, the little I know of his past work seems solid. I commend raising these issues, but it raises a few red flags with me in the manner of execution.
Re: Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
#7Words of wisdom over hundreds of tweets. I'd probably want to fire anyone that thinks this is a good idea.
Yeah... he should've hashed it out in a complete blog post since its very hard to appreciate the thought process