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I have a friend who's been a programmer at Apple for 30 years.
by ubermonkey 9y ago
I have a friend who's been a programmer at Apple for 30 years.
- scarface74 9y agoI know about Chris Espinosa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Espinosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Espinosa). I didn't think anyone else had been their 30+ years.
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoMany, actually. It was quite common to run into 30+ year folks at all levels, including EPM (I know of four off the top of my head).
- scarface74 9y agoThat says a lot. I would have jumped ship around 1995-1997. Things were bleak for Apple and everything they shipped software wise was buggy, behind the times, In 1994. Apple was on top of the world. They were the number one or number two computer seller and the PPC Macs were introduce and then Windows 95 happened.
- ubermonkey 9y agoWell, Chris has been there for even longer. To be a single-digit employee, you had to start in the 70s -- i.e., 40 years ago. My friend -- I don't think it'd be appropriate to name him -- has "only" been there 30, which means he joined a healthy-sized Apple already 10 years into its life.
- jrnichols 9y agoAn old girlfriend/still friend of mine started as a temp with Apple in 1998, became a permanent employee, and is still there. And another friend just moved on from Cisco after 20 years. It happens.