• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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      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