Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and how few people it employs

Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by Calavar on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:55PM (#40963496)

Ride share and delivery app companies could take some notes on how to stay lean and profitable while operating an online marketplace. I know ride share apps are more complicated, but I don't think we're talking two orders of magnitudes more complicated (300 employees vs. 30,000 at Uber). The bloat at Uber/Lyft/Doordash is insane.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by tokai on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:59PM (#40963513)

But isn't the whole idea for those companies to burn a lot of money to show investors that big things are happening?

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:49PM (#40963785)

The whole idea is to attract market share to show investors that big things are happening. I don't think being pointlessly unprofitable is attractive to investors...

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by Log_out_ on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:59PM (#40963853)

Gentlemen,let me give you the tour of our campus,here we develop shiny thing, our department for buzzword and of cause the lab for X

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by szundi on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:15PM (#40963596)

When every city or even district is forcing you to honor arbitrary rules there… your sw becomes complicated

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by jiggawatts on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:29PM (#40963675)

Steam has to deal with local tax regulations, censorship rules, distribution rights, etc…

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by arccy on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:47PM (#40963776)

you deal with countries and a few big publishers, not a few thousand cities each who want to be special

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by gjsman-1000 on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:57PM (#40963504)

One involves delivering software to license holders.

The other has to deal with the possibility of humans using their app as an assault or kidnapping mechanism; from either end (rider attacking driver; driver kidnapping passenger, etc.)

Very different levels of responsibility. This can be seen, for example, by the size of Lyft and Uber’s security teams.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by djhaskkka on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:10PM (#40963571)

you wish their headcount was for the customer safety team!

their lobbying team is probably larger than this one.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by gjsman-1000 on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:11PM (#40963576)

False, according to OpenSecrets, lobbying is under $2M a year.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by uyeieiii on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:38PM (#40963720)

that doesn't even cover the salary of all the obama admin people uber hired. let alone the actual lobbying going on. that's just what fall under some specific tax code.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by specialist on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:27PM (#40963659)

This is based on US Senate data. Does it include state and local lobbying?

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by stefan_ on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:58PM (#40963512)

Is it lean when your biggest payroll is "admin"? More like fattened up and held up by big margins and little competition.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by db48x on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:13PM (#40963585)

Do you think the leadership at Uber _isn’t_ making bank?

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by dmurray on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:43PM (#40963753)

It's sorted alphabetically, not by expenditure.

"Admin" is less than "Games" in every year.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by lolinder on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:54PM (#40963815)

If they're breaking things down as is usual then "Admin" includes, among other jobs, the entire customer support team, which I can vouch for as exceptionally good by the standards of internet platforms.

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Re:Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and ho... by stefan_ on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:57PM (#40963837)

It's 35 people, that most certainly does not include customer support, which will be outsourced to some low bidder as is customary.

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