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I didn't work at Apple, but at Nest Labs, which was essentially an Apple startup, and this resonates very heavily with me from the abuse I received directly fro
by outside1234 6y ago
I didn't work at Apple, but at Nest Labs, which was essentially an Apple startup, and this resonates very heavily with me from the abuse I received directly from Tony Fadell for a full year -- mostly essentially around protecting my team from systematic overwork.
I have had almost a half decade to put it behind me and have perspective on it, and it made a better manager.
But the other lesson from this is also that if this starts happening -- drop everything and find a new job -- it is not worth it no matter what.
- Apocryphon 6y agoI don't want to engage in amateur sociology, but I have to wonder that if this is common behavior across ex-Apple orgs (I do recall reading about how the Nest acquisition has been bumpy, as the former company had a very un-"Googley" culture), how much of this is a legacy of the very big impression Steve Jobs made upon the company, and thus on the people who worked under him. I think exposure to abuse normalizes some of the behaviors of abuse. So those who were used to that environment might act the same without a second thought. You see this even with behaviors that might be relatively harmless like being exceptionally cynical or critical.