apple going down
i have now worked at apple for over 15 years. the place has really changed for the worse. we really used to care about quality and the customer. now the main focus is bug count, and politics. when steve was around there really didnt seem lime everything was politically motivated i cant say that anymore. how do others feel about this?
Reading comprehension... He didn't say there was no politics in the past just that everything didn't feel politics driven then as it does now.
Could it be that now that you are older and more experienced you notice the politics that have always been there more now? I’ve read stories that there was always a lot of politics between the teams at Apple.
you might be right, hard to tell. it just never seemed this bad
I also feel this way after they removed the 3.5mm jack. They are going down...
I went on an interview at Apple and the political tension between folks was super clear even through their 30 minute interviews. It was such a turn off I knew that I didn't want to work there by the end of the fourth interview.
Not to mention the fact that you probably didn’t do well in your interview and now you are trying to justify it by pointing out something that you couldn’t have possibly experienced in a 30 minute interview.
Let me guess shard, you got rejected and you're salty.
It’s been upgraded to strong buy from buy by a broking firm today . Stock is doing pretty good . WS just cares about profits sadly .
IS&T?
More good managers needed
I imagine the focus on bug count and the focus on quality go hand in hand. Unless people are being told to hide bugs instead of fix them.
we are not hiding the bugs just moving them for latter. a product is done by a date, instead of when the incoming bug rate starts to taper off. absolute bug count in a release isnt a good measure
Damn. And here I thought that was only happening with IS&T dev. Timelines are bullshit. Deliver when it’s ready not when the times up
I think there are multiple things going on here. 1. Apple doesn’t have a good direction. They can’t decide whether they want to be a software or a hardware company (when in reality they have always been an ecosystem company). 2. They are focusing too much on the competition and reacting to it, rather than looking at different markets and asking hard questions to come up with something new. 3. Apple was always organized like a startup under Steve, and that worked because the scale of the company was small and was under very tight control. Now they have grown very large without a clear strategy of building the culture and a uniform hiring bar. This has brought on quite a few people that are absolute parasites.
100% correct
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