# Valve Corporation — Hiring Intelligence

> Generated: 2026-04-29 · Source: <https://yubhub.co/companies/valve-corporation> · API: <https://api.yubhub.co/stats/company/valve-corporation>

## Profile

- **Industry:** video game industry
- **HQ:** Bellevue
- **Headcount:** 330
- **Website:** <https://www.valvesoftware.com>

## Hiring trajectory

- **Total enriched roles:** 17
- **26-week trend:** stable (week-over-week +0%)
- **14-day momentum:** 0 recent vs 0 prior · stable (+0%)
- **Market share:** 2.8% of industry (618 jobs across 7 companies) — rank 3

## Where the hiring is

| Category | Postings |
| --- | ---: |
| engineering | 16 |
| design | 1 |

## Geographic distribution

| Region | Postings | Share |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Unknown | 16 | 100% |

### Shrinking hubs (last 30 days)

- **Unknown:** 0 recent vs 16 prior (-100%)

## Disproportionate skills (Location Quotient vs industry peers)

LQ = (this company's share of postings with skill X) ÷ (peer industry's share of the same skill). Values >1 mean over-indexed; >2 means twice as common as peers.

| Skill | Postings | This company % | Peer industry % | LQ | Required % |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Cloud Computing | 14 | 82.4% | 0.2% | 494.94 | 0% |
| Teamwork Skills | 5 | 29.4% | 0.2% | 176.76 | 100% |
| DevOps | 12 | 70.6% | 0.7% | 106.06 | 0% |
| Code Reviews | 5 | 29.4% | 0.3% | 88.38 | 100% |
| Agile Development Methodologies | 7 | 41.2% | 0.5% | 82.49 | 100% |
| Problem-solving Skills | 9 | 52.9% | 1% | 53.03 | 100% |
| Scrum | 4 | 23.5% | 0.5% | 47.14 | 75% |
| Agile | 7 | 41.2% | 1.2% | 35.35 | 100% |
| Attention To Detail | 7 | 41.2% | 1.2% | 35.35 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 14 | 82.4% | 2.5% | 33.00 | 0% |
| Java | 16 | 94.1% | 4.2% | 22.63 | 100% |
| C++ | 16 | 94.1% | 8.8% | 10.67 | 100% |
| Communication Skills | 5 | 29.4% | 4.7% | 6.31 | 100% |
| Game Development | 3 | 17.6% | 7.5% | 2.36 | 67% |

## AI exposure

- **Occupation-weighted score:** 0.302 (0 = manual / low automation, 1 = high automation potential)
- **Skill-weighted score:** 0.288

### Most-exposed roles

- **Software Engineer** — 16 postings, score 0.288

## Peer set

| Company | Postings | Similarity | Momentum |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [Playground Games](https://yubhub.co/companies/playground-games) | 10 | 100% | stable |
| [Respawn Entertainment](https://yubhub.co/companies/respawn-entertainment) | 14 | 50% | stable |
| [Electronic Arts](https://yubhub.co/companies/electronic-arts) | 414 | 40% | stable |
| [Keywords Studios](https://yubhub.co/companies/keywords-studios) | 144 | 17% | stable |

## Strategic themes

_Strategy briefs are generated weekly by an LLM analysis of the company's posting tag distribution. This section will populate once Phase 4 of the company-intelligence pipeline ships._

## Methodology & sources

- **Last enriched:** 2026-03-20T16:27:28.920Z
- **Company-data sources:** wikidata, news
- **Job-data refresh:** continuous (queue pipeline). Aggregations cached at the edge for up to 24 hours.
- **Caveats:** salary parser uses simple FX (snapshot 2024 rates); long-tail location strings may bucket as "Unknown"; AI-exposure scores derive from O*NET 30.2 + Anthropic Economic Index 2026-03-24.

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Data: <https://api.yubhub.co/stats/company/valve-corporation>