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The real talent would have left long ago.

• pacaro 14y ago
  Having been involved in an informal[1] acquihire a long time ago, I both agree and disagree with this. Engineering talent isn't always correlated with great organizational awareness, so while some of the better people will have moved on by the time it gets to this stage, there will still be strong engineers left. That being said by this stage it is unlikely to be a team on top of its game, and if the stories about an increasingly poisonous work environment are to be believed, Apple is going to have to do a winnowing process, and keeping the "team" together may well be counter productive. [1] Informal acquihire in the sense that our CEO got wind of a company closing down its remote sub (remote to them, local to us) and made a blanket offer to the team