A tweet about apple job? That is interesting
Yes. This is the tweet that got me the job - https://twitter.com/ddenboer/status/314419356685705219
Oh I see, is it possible to move inside apple to diferent depts?
Why I quit working at a startup
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Re: Why I quit working at a startup
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. This is the tweet that got me the job - https://twitter.com/ddenboer/status/314419356685705219
Oh I see, is it possible to move inside apple to diferent depts?
From what I asked, it seems like it is possible. Not sure how easy/hard it is though. The Senior Manager of the group that I interviewed for has 3 sub groups and he assured that it is totally possible to move between those groups.
Re: Why I quit working at a startup
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh I see, is it possible to move inside apple to diferent depts?
From what I asked, it seems like it is possible. Not sure how easy/hard it is though. The Senior Manager of the group that I interviewed for has 3 sub groups and he assured that it is totally possible to move between those groups.
Thanks, congrats!
Re: Why I quit working at a startup
#14My takeaway from this was "don't take a job with a 4 hour commute".
Re: Why I quit working at a startup
#15So... you stopped working at a startup because you had a four hour commute. Cool story.
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#16Not all startups are staffed with 1 lonely developer and require 4 hour daily commute time, but I wouldn't work at those that are like that either. In the big corporate world you may also yourself surrounded by non-technical coordinators and developers with outdated skills -- perhaps not so much at Apple, which is a great gig if you get it. Problem with big corps is they're risk averse, so less likely to adopt trendy…
"In the big corporate world you may also yourself surrounded by non-technical coordinators and developers with outdated skills -- perhaps not so much at Apple..."
...all I will say is that with a company that large you're working more for a department than you are a company on a whole. I think there is no "perhaps not so much at [insert any company of 10k+ employees here]". Choose the department you work for wisely.
Re: Why I quit working at a startup
#17My takeaway from this was "don't take a job with a 4 hour commute".
"don't take a job where you're the smartest person in the room" is probably more important.
a four hour commute can be mitigated (eg: work from home 3 days a week, or a mobile hotspot and pre-tax public transport commute programs, or if they want you enough a driver/moving bonus).
not having a peer to bounce ideas off of or review your code can't be mitigated.
Re: Why I quit working at a startup
#18Am I missing something, or was the authors lack of free time due entirely to the fact that he was commuting 4 hours, and not at all related to working at a startup like the title suggests?
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#19This should be called "Why I quit working at a startup to work for Apple"
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#20Great article. Programming is fun but when you're at a company and you're the most knowlegdable programmer than it becomes very lonely because your getting bombarded with work and like stated in the article if you do not know the answer to something Google and stackoverflow is your friend. Great article, happy you got the job at Apple doing what you love.
I never realised that this was a thing, but now that its been brought up, this is a big issue that I've been facing at work for some time. I'm not a programming rockstar but I am the only programmer at work. And I can't seem to find any other programmers in similar fields in this town. I only found out recently that going to conferences for programming was also a thing, although they seem hugely expensive. I just discovered user groups too, but there isn't one within 100s of miles of me. Still, now that I know these things exist and why people go to them, I have something to work towards.