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I spent a few years at Apple writing internal tools. IMHO, this is the way to have an effect on a company completely disproportionate to any other activity I k
by wooster 16y ago
I spent a few years at Apple writing internal tools.
IMHO, this is the way to have an effect on a company completely disproportionate to any other activity I know of. The tools I wrote at Apple have enabled projects which, AFAIK, are completely unheard-of at any other tech company.
That said, don't expect a payoff proportionate to the effect of the tool.
From a company owner's perspective, however, excellent tools can provide an advantage that is difficult for competitors to match. That's worth an awful lot.
- leftnode 16y agoYup, I've done this as well at current and past jobs. I'll usually just invent a new project, it gets the boss's attention and they like it, so I get to work on that rather than the normal boring stuff. It's great to invent your own projects at work.
- wizard_2 16y agoDitto - the firt few tools were small and only used by my team, the next few were big and used by everybody eventually, working on round 3...