Apple's inspirational note to new hires
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Apple's inspirational note to new hires
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Re: Apple's inspirational note to new hires
#2i find it very cool
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#3nice, but how many of you are ready to sacrifice your life (weekends) for a company's profit.
- Curing cancer: yes
- Saving lives : yes
- Building an outlet for yet spending more money : no
As much a I love my work, I won't love it more than my wife, or my future children.
Re: Apple's inspirational note to new hires
#4Nice way to inspire new hires. Like it.
However, I worry about Apple lawyers tracking down the person who uploaded this and offer a cease and desist instead of new hire orientation!
Re: Apple's inspirational note to new hires
#5i find it very cool
right on bro
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#6I'd think all those Foxconn workers need a similar inspiration plaque. They don't play it safe too, you know.
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#7Honest question: is it really possible to do that sort of work as a cog inside a huge corporation?
I'm asking because I'm looking at very likely being gobbled up by such a large corporation ...
Re: Apple's inspirational note to new hires
#8nice, but how many of you are ready to sacrifice your life (weekends) for a company's profit. - Curing cancer: yes - Saving lives : yes - Building an outlet for yet spending more money : no As much a I love my work, I won't love it more than my wife, or my future children.
Yeah, I had a similar reaction to that line. I might consider working weekends if I get something out of it other than "swimming in the deep end", like, say, extra money, or the prospect of extra money in the future in the case of a startup where one puts in that kind of time in the hope of future rewards. That is made possible by having a significant equity stake in the company.
I mean, if you look at it from something of a Homo Economicus point of view, consider the pay rate a good developer gets, and that that money for the weekend is essentially getting donated to Apple Inc, a massively profitable corporation.
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#9Honest question: is it really possible to do that sort of work as a cog inside a huge corporation? I'm asking because I'm looking at very likely being gobbled up by such a large corporation ...
Look at the company's products. If they blow you away, then at least some people at that company get to do work that blows customers away. Now you've reduced the task to evaluating whether you'll be one of those people - ask the right interview/followup questions :)
Who knows, maybe by framing yourself right to begin with, you can move into being one of those people in short order... On the whole, of course, it's impossible to tell who gets to do interesting work, and who does mundane work...except by talking with your future colleagues and trying to ask a lot of questions :)
Don't forget, that at a tiny company (3-5 people say), you will be far more likely to have to do things that are ridiculously mundane and boring: at the smallest companies it's just part of the job description. I think there's a better chance at a company where for the position you're filling, the job description is making mountains move.
Re: Apple's inspirational note to new hires
#10Honest question: is it really possible to do that sort of work as a cog inside a huge corporation? I'm asking because I'm looking at very likely being gobbled up by such a large corporation ...
I think Bret Victor's experience could be a useful case study: able to propose and see implemented major interaction paradigms like interacting directly with the screen to eg swipe around on an iPhone, as opposed to pressing a button. And yet, limited by what the company actually did and moreso by the ideas he couldn't share.