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> Apple used to give people the week between Christmas and New Years Day off (maybe they still do, I don't know). This was HIGHLY team dependent. I know peopl
by jmspring 4y ago
> Apple used to give people the week between Christmas and New Years Day off (maybe they still do, I don't know).
This was HIGHLY team dependent. I know people that were still busting ass 12+ hour days around the holidays due to deadlines/etc.
- Hayvok 4y agoNot sure what org you were in but Apple engineering orgs I was in always seemed to “power down” around Thanksgiving. Trying to schedule meetings or get new things done was tough. Tim got in the habit of giving everyone Thanksgiving week off, and while I don’t remember the specific Christmas shutdown schedule, PTO days were generous enough that you could supplement two or three and create a 2 week vacation.
- jmspring 4y agoI wasn't. Dated someone who was. This was years back while Steve was still alive. It made planning difficult at times.
- DeRock 4y agoIt’s not very team dependent. There are a few tiger teams that work between Christmas and new years, but they are the exception (outside of retail). Those days are official shutdown days on the company holiday calendar.
- jmspring 4y agoThis was hardware QA many many moons ago.
- HWR_14 4y agoQA working when everyone else has off is efficient, if not pleasant for those QA workers.
- dvfjsdhgfv 4y agoUnless it's Thanksgiving or Christmas and you actually want to spend some time with your close ones.
- mellowside 4y agothe efficiency is relative; you would have a pile of defects to deal with when the dev team comes back. also it's not equitable. as qa, I've experienced this. those bugs just get thrown in the backlog and the technical debt grows until it's crunch time and we're blamed we're not finding bugs fast enough, despite being available more on the project than the team which had a week off.