Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team
by caycep on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:27PM
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I've heard great teams at Apple and toxic teams - maybe more on Software than hardware (see the writeup / postmortem on Aperture which started off great but middle managers under time constraints ruined it/made it toxic).
Not sure if Apple silo-ing off teams lets this perpetuate, but then again, it's not like Google or FB have their own share of toxic groups.
You'd think something like that whole Apple university MBA program would figure out better ways of managing large numbers of people with commensurate egos, but it seems like an unsolved problem.
Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team
by manmal on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:25PM
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I don't believe the silo-ing of teams is a problem in itself. If teams are not silo-ed in a company of 150k employees, things will grind to a halt quickly.
Not sure if Apple silo-ing off teams lets this perpetuate, but then again, it's not like Google or FB have their own share of toxic groups.
You'd think something like that whole Apple university MBA program would figure out better ways of managing large numbers of people with commensurate egos, but it seems like an unsolved problem.