So is their internal culture the same as described here, a decade later?
For some reason, this manual gave me the same feeling I had when looking over college brochures as a young man. There was a sense of potential and excitement that was hard to put into words. Of course, the reality turned out very differently but I still remember that passing mixture of floating forms. Whether or not the document accurately depicts what it's like working at Valve, I am still taken aback that it managed to reproduce so specific and personal an emotion.
For some reason, this manual gave me the same feeling I had when looking over college brochures as a young man. There was a sense of potential and excitement that was hard to put into words. Of course, the reality turned out very differently but I still remember that passing mixture of floating forms. Whether or not the document accurately depicts what it's like working at Valve, I am still taken aback that it managed to reproduce so specific and personal an emotion.