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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by fragmede on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:28PM (#24483164)
The way Apple manages to do this is that, to a larger degree than others, the company is run as a collection of different companies. This has pros AND cons but one of the pros in this context is that their hiring is less "work at Apple", and more "work for THIS team at Apple". Hands-down unbeatable for the specific question of role clarity, but it's naive to pretend there aren't downsides to the practice.
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by greyhair on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:08PM (#24483673)
This is how Bell Labs was back prior to divestiture, up until the mid 1990s.

There really wasn't one huge Bell Labs, there were literally hundreds of hundred person teams run as if they were little companies, but with a huge bureaucracy providing funding, guidance, and all sharing a knowledge pool.

If you changed teams, you could find a completely different team culture using completely different tools. And like biology, some teams thrived, and some failed.

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by ImaCake on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:15PM (#24486781)
This sounds an awful lot like research at a university. It definitely has it's strenths and weaknesses. Some labs collaborate more than others. Some feel like islands in the ocean, while others feel like a townhouse in the city. Some labs are poor and a few are incredibly wealthy. All of them seem to filled with hard working interesting people.
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by Pokepokalypse on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:37PM (#24484977)
similar to SRI currently as well.
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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by dredmorbius on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:42PM (#24487982)
Multi-divisional form (MDF / M-form).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-divisional_form

Usually contrasted with unitary form (U-form).

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:39PM (#24485002)
I’d say Apple is structured substantially less like a bunch of different companies compared to one which is explicitly split into separate SBUs.
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