No, probably not. But think about the position all the ex-devs are in. If Valve is the "perfect place to work" and you didn't make it there, it implies there's something wrong with you. Thus being a former Valve employee in a way carries a certain amount of taint to it. I think us here in this thread have a unique perspective on all this because we've heard jshackles tales of Valve and how we all think they should hire him, but I'd imagine to most of the pc gaming community not in this thread, a lot of this stuff about Valve is news to them.