"In the big corporate world you may also yourself surrounded by non-technical coordinators and developers with outdated skills -- perhaps not so much at Apple..

"In the big corporate world you may also yourself surrounded by non-technical coordinators and developers with outdated skills -- perhaps not so much at Apple..." ...all I will say is that with a company that large you're working more for a department than you are a company on a whole. I think there is no "perhaps not so much at [insert any company of 10k+ employees here]". Choose the department you work for wisely.