3 ms·
Even more frustrating: You can't just pick the campus you want to work from. When I worked at Apple most teams were distributed by seat availability not co-loca
by no_wizard 5y ago
Even more frustrating: You can't just pick the campus you want to work from. When I worked at Apple most teams were distributed by seat availability not co-location, so you could be on the same campus or set of buildings but all work in different parts of the offices / campus so all meetings with exception of critical ones were held in a remote fashion in conference rooms anyway. So it wouldn't have mattered if I worked in Santa Clara, Apple Park, Infinite Loop, or Sacramento (yes, they have a campus there), or working from home, 80% of the time. They even had a shuttle that went from Sacramento to campuses every single day. It was so odd to me even to this day.
This was a common source of frustration for employees because they couldn't just work at the office closest to them or work from home. Very few people I knew there worked directly along side their team while I was there. I'm sure this wasn't true for everyone though, however I think it was at least at the time, the majority.
- lokar 5y agoAt Google people routinely have VC meetings between adjacent buildings.
- _fat_santa 5y agoThis makes their policy even more baffling. You're basically getting the worst of both worlds, you still have the commute and all the BS around working in person, yet once you get there it's essentially remote work.