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An important point that’s missed is that working in an office is dramatically worse now than it was when I started my career in the late 90’s. I had my own off
by jnwatson 4y ago
An important point that’s missed is that working in an office is dramatically worse now than it was when I started my career in the late 90’s.
I had my own office as intern. When I needed focus time (which is a lot of time as a developer), I could close a door.
Especially with Apple’s open-concept HQ, the delta between WFH and office is larger than it has to be.
The market is speaking. Apple pays well below the rest of FAANG already. Because of their policy, they can only recruit from a narrow, already highly-paid pool of developers.
I know an Apple manager that is leaving partly because he can’t recruit anyone to come work for him.
- cryptonector 4y agoAt Sun everyone had an office, either shared with at most two other people, or private. It was great.
- bsder 4y ago> An important point that’s missed is that working in an office is dramatically worse now than it was when I started my career in the late 90’s. Yeah. I think this is significantly being understated. There is a VAST difference between "in person" meaning "You have your own office" and "in person" meaning "Open office plan with no dividers at all". For the first, I wouldn't have much of an issue coming in. For the second, I'd probably take up pitchforks to avoid it.
- xiphias2 4y agoIt was not totally missed. The fact that it's so much harder to work in open office than home was in the letter, but sure it should have expanded on it being different from 20 years earlier.