Re:Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..
by Tuna-Fish on Friday August 03, 2012 @08:43PM
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> Well, the project manager
There are no project managers. The closest thing Valve has to them are nothing but glorified receptionists. There is no-one who can do the decision to not accept a team member.
If you flood into a project that is already overstaffed, you'd be hard pressed to find any actual work to do. Which means that you're not producing much, if any, value visible to your co-workers, and those are exactly the people who will be evaluating you.
There are no project managers. The closest thing Valve has to them are nothing but glorified receptionists. There is no-one who can do the decision to not accept a team member.
If you flood into a project that is already overstaffed, you'd be hard pressed to find any actual work to do. Which means that you're not producing much, if any, value visible to your co-workers, and those are exactly the people who will be evaluating you.