No coffee mugs, no post-it's, not a single piece of paper with some notes, no personal stuff -> can't be a engineering office.

But the old Apple II on the shelf in the back got me to smile.

Where did you see the Apple II? I saw the original Macintosh on the left, and the original Bondi blue iMac on the right.

I thought it was a Apple II, but I can be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Spot on! Also the floor is usually littered with things that fell off the benches.

Like MELF diodes. But they are supposed to.

Ah I hate those buggers. I made the mistake of ordering just enough of them once and I'd lost three before I got the first one on the board :(

Must End up Lying on Floor.

Never heard that one before. Perfect :)

Which would require[0] a fume extractor, which they're lacking. Unless we're meant to believe they use lead free solder in their test labs.

[0] https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_v/otm_v_3.html

Well, I grew up working only with lead free solder (learnt soldering in school in the EU, and RoHS applies for such purposes as well), and honestly, I can't see why they wouldn't. Lead free solder might be a bit easier to work with, but in the end not having a poison everywhere around you is gonna allow you to focus on the real issues instead.

Fume extractors are for the flux fumes, not the (nonexistent) lead fumes. You need them whatever type of solder you use.

There are ways of setting up solder fume extraction that is not intrusive, just like how casinos have HVAC systems that pull smoke upwards and out, generally avoiding the place smelling like smoke. I worked in a service center a long time ago that used such systems and if you shot video at ground level, you would never get any of that equipment in the shot.