Re:My Experience at Apple
by jiggawatts on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:21PM
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The author made a comment about GDPR privacy violations, but those are European laws that largely don't apply to American companies, especially related to internal HR matters.
While I don't want to dismiss the complaints out-of-hand, it does seem like there's just a touch of exaggeration going on.
Perhaps it's just a matter of perspective, but many of the complaints described could be chalked down to someone inexperienced being thrown into the deep end in a large organisation. E.g.: the complaint about "not knowing what I was doing for days" is almost laughable, when in my experience new hires at large orgs aren't properly informed about what they're doing for months!
The racism and physical abuse of course is inexcusable, but unfortunately all too common...
Re:My Experience at Apple
by fredericr on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:10PM
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All true, and also GDPR has nothing to do with a developer not being allowed to give data to its manager. This is all paranoid bullshit. The author must have been a real pain in the ass to work with.
While I don't want to dismiss the complaints out-of-hand, it does seem like there's just a touch of exaggeration going on.
Perhaps it's just a matter of perspective, but many of the complaints described could be chalked down to someone inexperienced being thrown into the deep end in a large organisation. E.g.: the complaint about "not knowing what I was doing for days" is almost laughable, when in my experience new hires at large orgs aren't properly informed about what they're doing for months!
The racism and physical abuse of course is inexcusable, but unfortunately all too common...