>The people accepted to work at Valve are allegedly elite and compatible with this flat structure. That or the people that have niched themselves into position

>The people accepted to work at Valve are allegedly elite and compatible with this flat structure. That or the people that have niched themselves into positions of unwritten-but-assumed authority have decided to hire quiet followers. Just because someone calls an environment a 'flat system' doesn't make it true. There exists just as likely, a very defined system controlled by seniority.