What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?

Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by Fnoord on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:38AM (#17591984)

> So you think it speaks well of management to check up on a very important demo the last few days of a three months preparation?

Nope, I think that's terrible, but that's an easy judgement to make. Who knows what a stressful mess management was in.

My point is that its part of a facade (broadly called "reality distortion field"). I quoted 3 examples of clearly manipulative behaviour.

Jobs could've made it easier for the engineer by checking out on Thursday. Why didn't he? Perhaps he just had high expectations and was very much disappointed? Has he ever published memoires where he went into examples like these?

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by pking on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:55AM (#17598206)

The demo for Steve was originally scheduled on a weekday the week previous, but kept getting rescheduled by Steve. Maybe it was a low priority for him and he thought he already knew what it was going to be. The preview only happened at all because we kept pushing for it, because we knew it had changed a lot and it would be very bad if he was seeing it for the first time live.

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