Valve’s Kim Swift confirms that the company does, in fact, have management

All that stuff you thought you knew about Valve Corporation and how awesome they are? Only some of it is only half true.

Claims in the recently launched Valve’s Handbook for New Employees that the company has no real management and that people working there can pretty much do whatever they want were perhaps a bit exaggerated.

“I guess for me, Valve as a company definitely has a lot more freedom for developers working there than a lot of other companies,” Portal designer Kim Swift told Eurogamer, but that bit about no management isn’t what readers might think.

“They do [have management] actually. They have management, there’s the board of directors of the company, there’s Gabe Newell. Those guys at the top of the company definitely have opinions on how things should be run.”

“You can choose the project you want to work on but there are definitely people behind the scenes making decisions for the company. To me, that’s normal. If it was a company where there was no structure at all I think things would run completely amok.”

Also, you actually have to go to work and do work, just like everywhere else, and you’re paid in money, not secret Half-Life sequels.

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