Valve's hiring practices

[coder0xff]

It's better to focus one "what I can do now with what I have" and make something that everyone will be stunned by.

Naturally, Valve is selective. Everyone wants to work there, lol.

And trust me, I am...

[Campaignjunkie]

If anyone's interested, here was my experience with Robin Walker at GDC. It was really positive. He's a great guy.

http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/201 ... art-2.html

[joe_rogers_11155]

it blows my mind away how other video game companies are.

From the Call of Duty debacles (Why in the world would the company try and sell their MW2 map packs when the main game made them so many millions!?) to the absurd attitudes of the other companies in campaignjunkie's blog posts.

WTF is wrong with these guys, and why can't they simply be more like Valve (at least when it comes to being nice people)?

[JakeParlay]

... while I was working on the CAMP project for DOD Source, they are pretty approachable and seem to care what people think about their product.

ahh, glory days! good to see you prop

[Generalvivi]

Vivi, weren't you laid off recently? Where do you work now?

sorry for the late response, I still currently work at Raven .

[ChopperDave]

If anyone's interested, here was my experience with Robin Walker at GDC. It was really positive. He's a great guy.

http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/201 ... art-2.html

Awesome post!

[Hollow]

I'm going to try out that, speaking aloud thing, when i playtest my maps now, sounds like a pretty good idea as you get a sense of the thoughtstream you are going through whilst playing it.

edit: referring to the Radiator blog post...

[[JFG]Propaganda]

... while I was working on the CAMP project for DOD Source, they are pretty approachable and seem to care what people think about their product.

ahh, glory days! good to see you prop

Eh same for you Jake...better days....

[mrfranswa]

If you guys wish, I can give you my experience later on. I also interviewed with valve at GDC, however I think mine went a bit better than campaign junkies, (No offense. Maybe it's just the way you wrote it. I wish you luck!). I was looking for any company to really work for, however valve was one of the few companies which acted professionally enough for me to want to work for them, (tripwire, I appreciate the interview!)

Honestly, valve sees so many mod'ers out there who want to work for them, that you need to separate yourself from the herd. When I was having my interview, Robin was far more interested in the fact that I'm a professional sculptor, my first place working concept of budget fire in freezer burn, and that I have professional self-directing job experience over anything else. I was actually thinking of starting another project. I'm starting to lose interest in constantly updating my current projects, and I think it would go a long way if we started a new one with an aggressive release date, (month at max). Is anyone interested in forming a team? If so give me a private message, because I rarely check old posts on interlopers and if you simply post "sure I'd love to team up!" I won't get it!!!

Did any of you email valve back and thank them? I hate to say it, but that's a pretty standard business practice. I've already received replies from both gabe and mike durand.... both of which I now owe lunch/dinner .