Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]

Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by xigency on Monday July 25, 2016 @11:08AM (#12159172)

"We were having a difficult time recruiting folks. We would interview very talented people but they would be rejected by the old timers at Valve as not fitting the culture."

This sounds like a terrible environment to develop in.

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Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by Bjartr on Monday July 25, 2016 @03:38PM (#12161025)

If done "right" it could also maintain an environment that is excellent to develop in iif you do fit in the culture.

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Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by xigency on Monday July 25, 2016 @03:46PM (#12161077)

This quote was talking about the Steam Box team, a hardware team that was an enclave inside of a software company. It sounds really hokey for this team developing new hardware to be unable to bring in necessary talent for whatever reason.

It might be different if the new hires did have day-to-day work with these old software or video game developing fogies.

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Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] by jhogger on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @10:10AM (#12165707)

totally.

what happens if i'm really talented AND come from totally different culture?

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