Valve Employee Handbook

RedTop89 said:
You have to say VALVe is one iof the best if not the best company in the world... i remember Gabe offering protesters into Valve HQ and bought them Pizza and let them play some beta for a game for a few days. Damn...

I know its not gaming but i believe Pixar studios is the same style of work place, i watched a behind the scenes video and they explained what it was like to work there it sounded incredible.
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Was that the one about John Lasseter. I really am a huge believer in the notion that your environment has a huge impact on your ability to work and what you're capable of achieving.

It's nice to see that not all of the huge companies are tyranical entities where creativity and working conditions are given a backseat in favour of being able to churn out stuff just for money.

I'd like to see more companies follow in the footsteps of Valve and Pixar. Work should be enjoyable and not a chore.

Still as people have said, it must take some getting used to if you've worked within a very heirarchical environment for all your life.
 
I'm 43 years old and have been working since I left school at 16. That's the first company hand book I've ever read from cover to cover.
 
This is a job we all hope to have in terms of freedom. Yet we are brought up in a society which says do this do that. If you dont do 'x' and 'y' you cant get 'z'. Imagine transitioning to a job like this.

Amazing <3 VALVe.
 
It's ironic because the companies who put profit before people are making less profit than the company that puts people first.
 
Sleepery said:
They're making more money than the soulless companies that run roughshod over their employees so that they can make as much money as possible.
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EA and Activision probably on the same level in that regard.

Id bet its not much fun cranking out a cod game year in year out with Kotick and his band of cronies breathing down your neck, that games literally their cash cow and woe betide any developer who doesnt get it out on time.

EA, well their story speaks for itself when it comes to grinding employees into the dirt.
 
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Demoniser said:
Was that the one about John Lasseter. I really am a huge believer in the notion that your environment has a huge impact on your ability to work and what you're capable of achieving.

It's nice to see that not all of the huge companies are tyranical entities where creativity and working conditions are given a backseat in favour of being able to churn out stuff just for money.

I'd like to see more companies follow in the footsteps of Valve and Pixar. Work should be enjoyable and not a chore.

Still as people have said, it must take some getting used to if you've worked within a very heirarchical environment for all your life.
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i don't know who it was mate i cant remember that well i just know this behind the scenes was on before the release of Toy Story 3, it had an insight of what effects they are now able to do with their movies, such as Cars they implemented reflections and so on. but yeah Pixar looked and sounded like an adult playground to work in so to speak where creativity is encouraged and any ideas should be brought up no matter who its from.
 
"WFH—Working From Home. What to do if a single ********* falls out of
the sky."

Sounds good to me.
 
I just read the whole thing cover to cover, I can't believe a company like this exists, I'm not sure super awesome covers my feelings.
 
KraniX said:
I love Valve and wish I worked for them.

I started a new job a couple of weeks ago, not a bit of humour in any of the piles of new starter cr@p I was given, all just dull, boring rubbish no one cares about and no one cares about the company, just getting paid and getting through the week... sad.
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70%+ of all companies / businesses like this... just pay my ****ing money and **** off.

you are a slave to them, a ****ing number who work for 40 hours a week... YOU ARE a slave.

this is not the case for VALVE, Valve treat you as a family, true ****ing family.
 
Yeah but a system like this would only work in a company staffed with highly self motivated, enthusiastic, talented folk. 99.9% of companies would fold in a month with this philosophy. You just know a huge chunk of the office would just slack off.
 
That's why they only employ people who they know will be able to fulfil the criteria at interview.

There was a blog post not long ago about a guy who was afraid of having to leave his job at valve because he had to go on long term sick leave and when he spoke to Gabe about it Gabe told him that his only job at the moment was to get better and that nothing else has changed at all. He still got paid etc.

That's the power of value to the company and I think Gabe is only one of a handful of people who understand that.
 
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