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I recently interviewed at Apple. They told me you can not contribute to open source even on your own time if you get hired! They said we use "tons of open sour
by msoad 11y ago
I recently interviewed at Apple. They told me you can not contribute to open source even on your own time if you get hired!
They said we use "tons of open source software" but we don't contribute back because it's going to "impact company's picture".
- chrisra 11y agoWhy would contributing make them look bad? Are they trying to avoid being like everyone else? I guess that's an okay plan unless everyone else is being nice to each other.
- msoad 11y agoTheir argument is they are not interested in little contributions. I guess they want a big marketing buzz for everything they do.
- scarface74 11y agoSo which should I believe, a random poster on Hacker News that says that Apple forbids employees to contribute to open source, or the fact that Apple has many published open source projects?
- msoad 11y agoI guess it depends on the team. Apple unlike Google hires for a specific team. Team that I was talking with would not allow open source contributions. This is true for most of Apple. I have a lot of friends working in Apple. They sent project Titan people to a battery conference with a fake company name which they actually registered and made people believe it's a real company. It has a Crunchbase profile and all that. They published zero papers from their battery research. That's the Apple you should know.