Apple este una dintre cele mai cautate companii de catre cei dornici de angajare, insa desi locul de munca la Apple poate parea atractiv, realitatea este ca nu toata lumea este multumita. Vorbind intr-un interviu recent, Don Melton, un fost manager al companiei Apple, sustine ca in cadrul companiei Steve Jobs a pornit cu multi ani in urma o “cultura” a programului non stop pentru ingineri, manageri si nu numai.
Sunday is a work night for everybody at Apple because it’s the exec meeting the next day. So you had your phone out there, you were sitting in front of your computer, it didn’t matter if your favorite show was on […] You were basically on until, like, 2 o’clock in the morning …
Indiferent de ora din zi in care se afla lumea, angajatii Apple trebuie sa fie mereu dispusi sa vina la serviciu pentru a rezolva probleme, pentru a participa la intalniri cu sefii lor, pentru a implementa functii noi visate de catre sefi si nu doar atat. Desi programul de lucru infernal a inceput sub conducerea lui Jobs, Tim Cook a continuat strategia si unii ingineri sunt treziti din somn si chemati la companie pentru a rezolva orice fel de probleme apar.
You get an email forwarded to you that’s not to you. It’s from Scott, but it’s a forward from Steve and it’s just coming at this crazy hour, right? You just know that there’s this firehose of emails that are just going out at 2:45 in the morning and there are VPs or executive VPs who are scrambling to get answers. And that was just week after week, month after month, over the years […]
When you hear the so-called apocryphal stories about Tim Cook coming to work in the wee hours and staying late, it’s not just some PR person telling you stories to make you think that Apple executives work really hard like that. They really do that. I mean, these people are nuts. They’re just, they are there all the time.
Partea interesanta este ca nu doar angajatii au acest program de lucru fara somn, ci si vicepresedintii, atat Tim Cook, cat si multi alti membri ai echipei sale vin dis-de-dimineata la serviciu si pleaca in toiul noptii, unii dintre ei adunand doar catre 3 – 4 ore de somn pe zi. Avand in vedere ca sefii lucreaza tarziu, angajatii trebuie sa fie mereu la dispozitie, in viziunea celor din cadrul Apple, asa ca daca Tim Cook iti trimite un email la 2 noaptea, tu trebuie sa raspunzi.
In ciuda acestui program infernal, Don Melton a iubit munca facuta la Apple pana in momentul in care a decis sa plece si cu siguranta nu este singurul de aceeasi parere.
