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Team dependent hiring is not “unique” to Apple, as the author posits. This used to be the norm before Google. It is fairly well known that Apple has a “hire d
by georgeburdell 3y ago
Team dependent hiring is not “unique” to Apple, as the author posits. This used to be the norm before Google. It is fairly well known that Apple has a “hire different” approach that heavily values specific experience, which frustrates the Leetcode monkeys on Blind
- ladberg 3y agoI think "unique among big tech companies" and "used to be the norm" can both be true! It definitely has pros and cons though: I've worked on a handful of teams at Apple and was very lucky to have been able to work on super fun and interesting stuff on all of them, but an outsider confronted with 1000+ vague listings on jobs.apple.com is effectively playing the lottery of whether they'll get to interview for a team that's a good match for them.
- ecshafer 3y agoI can't speak for Apple. But team specific hiring does have some big downsides. It allows some managers to brings friends / family in that are not really qualified. I once worked with a team that every single person on the team lived in the same town, and had some personal connection to the manager, they were not good. Without some standardization or minimum bar, it leaves teams to figure out how they hire, and that might not be good.