“We don’t hire to specific positions, we hire to standards.

And I haven’t seen any evidence that the rate of change in the industry is decreasing. I think it’s increasing. So what you’ll end up finding is those thousand people are the enemy of your next project. They may be able to bang out your current one, but they’ll get in the way of doing the next one.

But, seriously, if fifty awesome people knocked on the door, we’d hire them all.
We don’t hire to specific positions, we hire to standards.

— Gabe Newell on Valve