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Apple hardware engineering probably does involve a good amount of in-person work. As far as software goes, Apple's entire culture of secrecy and very top-down
by Apocryphon 4y ago
Apple hardware engineering probably does involve a good amount of in-person work.
As far as software goes, Apple's entire culture of secrecy and very top-down approach to decision-making negates the whole "water cooler conversations lead to innovation" meme. Steve Jobs' "serendipitous personal encounters" placement of bathrooms to facilitate conversations was done at Pixar, not at Apple.
- emptyparadise 4y agoSpeaking of Pixar, isn't there a whole story of one of their movies getting saved because of somebody working from home and having a backup of the data?
- Apocryphon 4y agoI've might've heard of that. Speaking of Apple and WFH, a single remote employee laid the foundation for the OS X transition to Intel from his very own home office: https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answer/Kim-Scheinberg https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secr...
- richev 4y agoYes, it was Toy Story 2. https://screenrant.com/toy-story-2-movie-deleted-accident-recovered/ https://screenrant.com/toy-story-2-movie-deleted-accident-re...