Hey there, as someone who works at Valve, maybe you can answer this for me (I've asked many times but never gotten an answer).
Who sets the salaries? With a flat structure and no "managers", who picks your salary for next year? Who picks how much a new person gets an offer for? How are raises and equity comp determined?
That all seems to be missing from (at least this version of) the handbook. The word salary appears once and compensation eight times, but it just says "we try to be the best" but never discusses the mechanics of it.
Who sets the salaries? With a flat structure and no "managers", who picks your salary for next year? Who picks how much a new person gets an offer for? How are raises and equity comp determined?
That all seems to be missing from (at least this version of) the handbook. The word salary appears once and compensation eight times, but it just says "we try to be the best" but never discusses the mechanics of it.
Thanks!