This article has an exploitative undertone in the hiring process.
The “what will you do to work here vibe” might work for inexperienced fresh grads but is something others will avoid like the plague. It seems like there no employee leverage at scale.
Pointing out that this happens specifically when companies maximizes for prioritizes profit instead of the benefit of their product (which was what allowed them to gain such traction).
It does feel prevalent in large corporations though.
I don't think privacy works when I don't trust Apple period. They have done shady anti consumer things like decreasing battery life. This feels like lip service till I see implementation details(and even then I want to see the code).
When you say "implementation details", do you mean things like their Safari Privacy White Paper[0], their Photos Tech Brief[1], their Location Services White Paper[2], or their Apple Sign On White Paper[3]?
By decreasing battery life, do you mean decreasing performance so the battery doesn’t prematurely die? I think most of us admit they could have relayed it to users better; but, what they did was far from nefarious.
They throttled the phones with bad batteries so the peak energy usage doesn’t exceed what the battery can provide and shuts down the phone. But unfortunately people just remember the click bait headlines.
I've personally experienced the "effective pause" and strongly feel against it. This assumes that software engineers always have ideas on how to fix things and are not autonomous.
In my opinion, it's helps much more to break down/simplify the engineer's thought and the problem they are trying to solve. And then, try to solve it together...
1. I do think that the kind of people we have on our team will almost always have some ideas to fix things.
2. The break-down and simplifying happens, of course. But the dev leads the breaking down, with careful guidance by the lead. And it is being solved together, don't you think? The example didn't describe the full end to end design process, but just a part of it which was relevant to explain the point. I think I could have made it more clearer. Thank you for the feedback, noted :)
The “what will you do to work here vibe” might work for inexperienced fresh grads but is something others will avoid like the plague. It seems like there no employee leverage at scale.