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It's a slippery slope to have teams fire-walled and competing with each other. We hear stories from the Dropbox guys that One Apple team invited them over to as
by salem 15y ago
It's a slippery slope to have teams fire-walled and competing with each other. We hear stories from the Dropbox guys that One Apple team invited them over to ask how they hacked the finder, because they didn't have access to the functionality that dropbox reverse engineered. As a recent grad at Motorola, I once heard similar stories about Motorola's PCS and semiconductor groups 10 years ago.
- pja 15y agoAs I recall from interviews with the DropBox crowd, that's more because what DropBox was doing wasn't even planned functionality in the first place; they hooked into the Finder code at a fairly low level in order to get it to do what they wanted. (Anyone got a link?) Your general point is correct of course: the price of compartmentalisation is the inability to benefit from the experience of other groups in the company.