Re:Software Engineering at Google
by foldr on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:33AM
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Has it really? The transition to Apple Silicon was pretty impressive, and something that Apple could simply not have done at all while still remaining hugely profitable. I don't know anything about the company's internal culture, but it's not exactly resting on its laurels just yet.
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The hardware people certainly aren't: I think they're reveling in their newfound freedom to make the best, not just the thinnest, computers.
But the software side? There seems to be a massive variance in both ability, and giving-a-shit across the software orgs, and no leadership filter on the output of these disparate groups.
Perhaps they have the opposite of the resting-on-laurels problem: a smattering of very senior people who are talented and care about the product/users, and a wide base of careerists who aren't very good and just want the money and the CV, users be damned.
The Apple Silicon transition also involves software (Rosetta), which works absurdly well given the complexity of what it's doing.
Exactly my point: the same company wrote Rosetta and the new Settings. Clearly not the same level of talent and commitment in those two teams.