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Do these three people have 45 years combined experience on the industrial design team, or do you get promoted into that team after substantial experience on oth
by itsdrewmiller 8y ago
Do these three people have 45 years combined experience on the industrial design team, or do you get promoted into that team after substantial experience on other teams at Apple? That could be the difference between a dramatic loss of institutional knowledge and ho hum normal turnover (12% annually).
- puzzle 8y agoProbably the former, given that the team has been around for a long time. There was another defection even before their earliest example of 2016. In that case it was someone with a decade of experience on the team and another 25 years in the field who went to Google (ouch).
- Despegar 8y agoFrom the New Yorker profile of Jony Ive a few years ago: >Apple employs three recruiters whose sole task is to identify designers to join the group; they find perhaps one a year. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-c...