In a video interview, Valve’s former head of hardware, Jeri Ellsworth describes and critiques the Seattle-based developer’s working environment, calling it “a lot like High School.”
“There are popular kids that have acquired power,” she adds, “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.”
In her role Ellsworth was tasked with building a team focused on hardware and in the video chat she expounds on the frustrations of the job. “I was struggling trying to build this hardware team and move the company forward. We were having a difficult time recruiting folks – because we would be interviewing a lot of talented folks but the old timers would reject them for not fitting into the culture.”
“I shouldn’t say the numbers, but there were very few of us in the hardware department,” she says. “We were understaffed by about a factor of 100.”
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Former Valve employee on developer's "weird paranoia"
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