Interesting article

[ironphoenix]

Favorite quote: "Next time you are speaking to an automated phone system, try swearing; you’ll be immediately redirected to human operators because they are the ones handling rude clients."

The article also links to Valve's employee handbook, describing how they run a managerless company, which is well worth reading.

Comments

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

The thing with being their sysadmin would be that on the one hand, they aren't obligated to play nice with the sysadmin, but on the other, the sysadmin isn't obligated to be the sysadmin for people who refuse to play nice. There can be a negotiation there. The enlightened would figure out that a few restrictions are worth accepting in exchange for a good sysadmin's services.

It could be an awesome place to work, or not, depending on the people, even more than in most organizations.

On culture, see below soon!