Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers
by stcredzero on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:47PM
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Both of these are very difficult things to accept. They may be even more difficult to accept if one is extraordinarily smart/diligent and one studies/works solely in organizations which apply brutal IQ/diligence filters before one is granted even a scintilla of the admission committee's time.
It's irrational to base a network security plan on the notion that one can concoct an impenetrable barrier. Very few things in the real world are built like this, because it's very hard to get that to work. Most successful plans are built on a notion of "defense in depth." Valve is probably using their structure to create a "free market" within its workforce, allowing natural leaders to create subgroups, elites, and further compartmentalization.
Even if Valve, being comprised of very smart people, has a magic interview plan that can select for real technical talent 100% of the time, all of the other possible workplace pathologies will be impossible to filter out 100%.
It's irrational to base a network security plan on the notion that one can concoct an impenetrable barrier. Very few things in the real world are built like this, because it's very hard to get that to work. Most successful plans are built on a notion of "defense in depth." Valve is probably using their structure to create a "free market" within its workforce, allowing natural leaders to create subgroups, elites, and further compartmentalization.
Even if Valve, being comprised of very smart people, has a magic interview plan that can select for real technical talent 100% of the time, all of the other possible workplace pathologies will be impossible to filter out 100%.