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Valve has the 'Gabe / Everyone Else' structure. They seem to make it work ok. Performance reviews are written by your peers, usually people who worked with you

• joezydeco 12y ago
  Jeri Ellsworth (ex-Valve employee) will disagree with you here. "There is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company," she claims. "And it felt a lot like High School. "There are popular kids that have acquired power, then there's the trouble makers, and then everyone in between. Everyone in between is ok, but the trouble makers are the ones trying to make a difference." http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-s-perfect-hiring-hierarchy-has-hidden-management-clique-like-high-school/0115316 http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-s-perfect-hiring-hi...
  • trhway 12y ago
    >"And it felt a lot like High School. "Called "holacracy," the new system replaces the conventional command-and-control workplace with a series of self-governed teams, known as "circles." " i first read it as "cliques" :)
• mcphage 12y ago
  > Valve has the 'Gabe / Everyone Else' structure. They seem to make it work ok. Except for the whole Half Life 3 issue. The fans have been clamoring for it for years, presumably someone in Valve wants to make it... but the company has been unable. I don't know if it's they've been unable to keep a project going strong before the team splintering, or there's several competing internal projects, or if there's one which is being unmanaged and so is growing unboundedly, or something else entirely. But something's going wrong there.