My colleague had been invited to visit both Apple and Google (former CERN employee). He said the contrast was very stark. In Google everyone was young and looked like they where having fun, at Apple where the old grumpy gray-beards with decades behind them.
And he would usually his story with: -And I've been an Apple-fanboy ever since.
I've been having a great time at Apple. I joined a bit over two years ago (coming from a 7.5-year-long stint at google). The people are great, the work is very interesting. Highly recommended.
Google used to be a non-sucky place to work, but from what I hear from friends still there, it's not at all like it was in 2012
"In the summer of 2014 during my Computer Science degree I was lucky enough to intern at Apple as engineer on the Enterprise App Development team in Cupertino (long way from Eastern Canada), where I learned an absolute ton from some crazy smart people."
Hey, Apple still hired them. Apple is chosing to dilute its core engineering brand. It's not like an end user can tell if a "real engineer" wrote the shitty webpage that's currently giving them grief.
I used to work for Apple as a Software Engineer (in fact as a part of a team very relevant to this issue) and left very quickly. It was the most uninspiring place I had ever worked or even interviewed at.
Well I went to some of them :). It was pretty funny since I knew many people there - and we even talked about it at work. Around that time (2006) it was clear Mot was going to die so everyone was either looking for a new job or trying to get laid off with a nice severance package.
Apple booked a hotel conference room down the road from the Schaumburg office and had Apple engineers there. I even met with some of the original iPhone software team. They spoke with us and took our CVs, and if they liked you, flew you to 1 Infinite Loop for interviews.
Not a very interesting story, just you complaining about how Apple passed on you with a healthy dose of sour grapes. I know a couple aerospace colleagues who got hired there though. They were well above average mechanical engineers, needless to say Apple's hiring bar is quite high.
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