Any time you have more than a handful of primates in a room, you're going to have politics and hierarchy. Valve does appear to try very hard to avoid enshrinin

Any time you have more than a handful of primates in a room, you're going to have politics and hierarchy. Valve does appear to try very hard to avoid enshrining hierarchy. No org charts. What people work on can be very fluid. Doesn't mean it's nirvana.