I work in IS&T org of Apple. Moved here couple years ago from FANG. I have heard lot of you are Interested in learning about this org. Ask away. 12YOE 150k engineering and operations
What is Apple?
Understand your pain. And I am so sorry to be a part of it.
i just jumped to google and getting a goddamn computer setup is a nightmare. security keys and tickets up the ass! fucking windows computers blow...i haven't used one in so long. the pain from IS&T was nothing.
It has to be three pronged approach. 1. Focus on better engineering practices: Classify applications in three buckets -legacy, current and emerging technologies. Measure these applications in terms of revenue,resilience, need-to-improve and scalability. 2. Focus on your Employees: Target any manager or director who’re stuck in same role for more than 2-3years or has way too many people reporting to them. Such managers don’t know either how to enable their team to be successful or they’re taking it easy. Present them an option for down-leveling to a non-management role or offer severance. 3. Hire and coach better talent: Target those individuals with technical knowledge and communication skills to be the evangelist for their team and be part of hiring task force. Train individuals in teams how to be an effective interviewer. Set a higher bar for hiring. Pair the interns and new college grads with those architects and Sr engineers as their mentors. They should focus on doing POC with relevant scalable resilient tools to replace legacy applications and much needed infrastructure. Foster the idea of “you kill what you eat” meaning team members would own the collective responsibility of design, architecture, operations as in the whole. And lastly get rid of that PMO org. It’s political, worthless and they don’t serve any purpose of what a typical PM does.
Good ideas. But how can IS&T compete with other orgs to hire talented hires then?
I am a bit green but what is IS&T?
IS&T means internal services & technology, an internal IT org.
Does the app that you guys make for your retail stores employees still suck?
Possibly.
What is IS&T? I can see a lot of complains about this depatment but noone said what they doing.
It is the internal IT org for Apple.
Are there any good teams in IS&T or all teams suck?
I am sure there are some.
That department is fucked up, isn’t it?
Fucked up is an understatement.