Comment by tonyedgecombe
1 year ago
>How do you communicate with the rest of the organization?
I wonder if Apple's renowned secrecy is a help with this. If nobody outside your small team knows what you are doing then it is hard for them to stick their oar in.
For the record I was interning on Cameron's team while he worked on Rosetta 2 and didn't even know myself what he worked on (the rest of the team and I were working on something else). I only found out later after it was released!
Apple is like this, I have seen plenty of instances where you have one person carrying a team of 5 or more on their back. I always wonder how they manage to compensate them when it’s clear they are getting 10x more done. Hopefully they get paid 10x, but something tells me that isn’t true.
Maybe getting interesting work is a better perk than $$, especially when Apple is already paying top dollars?
I'd imagine a lot of people are willing to do things for free.
When I was consulting I saw that everywhere. A team of ten people would have one or two primary contributors and often one person who had a negative impact on productivity.