• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    8 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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      8 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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        8 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 with that money printing machine and good reputation among users it’s no doubt be cozy for devs to start stuff without having someone breath down their neck for costing too much money or too high of a risk.

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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