Valve's New Employee Handbook Leaked, Job Applications Doubl

[News Portal]

Alright, we made up the bit about the applications doubling, but don't be surprised if they do: Valve's New Employee Handbook, which was posted yesterday on the Flamehaus forums, shows an amazing company full of wonder, joy, and week-long company-paid vacations (bring your family, they're included). The handbook, which has since been linked from the official Valve Facebook page, is replete with entertaining illustrations and a very Valve-like sensibility, and makes for amazing reading. Check it out.

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[jellygoose]

Australia — A place that’s either very near or is New Zealand where more
than half of Valve’s employees were born.

hehe nice.

[Spooler]

Leaked ? I saw it posted from Valve in my facebook news feed, so yes it is legit

[Tim Colwill]

Leaked ? I saw it posted from Valve in my facebook news feed, so yes it is legit

Can you send me a link? I haven't seen any official confirmation. Cheers!

[PalZer0]

Getting reports that the handbook is a fake.

[eggheart]

http://www.facebook.com/Valve

[Spooler]

Can you send me a link? I haven't seen any official confirmation. Cheers!

http://www.facebook.com/Valve

Didn't see Egghart had posted it sorry about the double post

[Tim Colwill]

Marvellous, thanks gents!

[Spooler]

Marvellous, thanks gents!

Anytime Mr. Chimp. /Hattip

Edit
Off topic whatever happened to refried ?

[DXPetti]

Great read and some very fine advice in there

[DeathMist]

Always been a dream of mine to work at Valve.

They genuinely seem like they enjoy what they do and it isn't so much as a job rather then a hobby.

[Drakand]

this this this this this and so much more of this!

[PalZer0]

There's some valuable lessons that the likes of EA can take from this book (not listening to your customers is a failure, repeating the same mistakes over and over again is a failure, etc).

[Wanell]

There are valauble lessons here that the entire **** corporate world can take... Mind boggling how this works for a billion dollar company yet smaller ones keep silly heirarchies. I bet Valves employee retention is awesome.

[SpEEd_NiNjA]

A very entertaining read. If only this sort of company structure... wait... what company structure (see what i did there?) was more common.

I bet Valves employee retention is awesome.

While I couldn't agree more with that statement I can't help but think how hard it would be to get the foot in the door initially.