What it's Like to Work at Valve
Tyler McVicker
Why leaders watch it
Accounts from ex-employees of a company with no formal management, showing benefits and downsides of flat structure.
Valve News Network goes through over twenty accounts from ex-Valve employees, mostly from Glassdoor, about what it is like to work at Valve. It covers the company's flat structure and culture.
Takeaways
- Flat structures reward self-direction but hide power
- Without managers, informal hierarchy emerges
- Culture attracts and repels different people
Topics: Culture & values, Org design & scaling
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