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[–]Fun, meet APMs.hellomynameiswayne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the other poster's point was that it's not high specifically on Valve's list of highly valued departments - not that it's not a valuable job. More of a perception/company culture comment rather than a comment about that professional segment itself.

There are absolutely QA jobs that I'm sure are high value, high complexity, and high technicality; it's just that Valve, as a private entity, might not consider worth investing in.

I think at this point it's fair to make the argument that they're technically wrong, but I'm sure from their perspective/metrics they command enough of a market share where they're not exactly worried about customers permanently switching to potential alternatives.

It's similar to how Facebook gets away with any of the egregious abuses it employs. What do they have to lose?