Valve’s Handbook for New Employees: managers worldwide tremble

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  • April 21, 2012 at 6:19 pm

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Valve Handbook for New Employees

We got a taste of what it’s like to work at Valve, the successful game software company behind Half-Life, Portal but also Steam, last week through a blog post by developer Michael Abrash. Though this latest news doesn’t add anything to the company’s wearable computing research plans, it does give us another glimpse inside the company and another dose of envy.

To refresh, Valve has no hierarchy, as illustrated by the original post above, which might be hard to comprehend at first but is an incredibly smart, and awesome, idea. You see Valve, as most tech companies should be, is all about creativity and ingenuity that risks getting buried under typical company structures. So to get new joiners up to speed to its idiosyncrasies, Valve has created a “handbook”, which has now been leaked, and you can have a look at here.
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Valve Software investigating wearable computing

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  • April 16, 2012 at 5:20 pm

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Valve Software

Take note as you will be hearing much more of wearable computing in the years to come. Google had just announced early this month its own exciting project to create a pair of self-contained augmented reality glasses, named Project Glass. So now, it would be as good a time as ever for other companies to share their own plans and research on the subject.

Valve Software, best known for the games Half-Life and Portal, has just come out, through a blog post by developer Michael Abrash, that it’s also started doing some R&D on wearable computing. But first a brief intro on Michael, he has been in tech for over thirty years and has worked at Microsoft as the graphics lead for Windows NT, then at Id working on Quake, then working on the Xbox and finally on Intel’s Larrabee GPU architecture. In two words, he is a real heavy weight.
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