Jeremy Foo writes about his 4 year pursuit of a development job at Apple.
> It was such a thrill to be approached and tremendously flattered my ego to be thought of as worthy enough to work at the fruit company. I had just shipped my first iOS App.
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> I did the the phone interview and was good enough to be granted the chance for the technical test; a wee bit of “homework” in the form of writing something similar to what Apple has now in the form of UICollectionView. It was definitely much tougher than what I have ever previously done but I did it anyway and learnt a bunch from it.
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> The code review was brutal. The author of UITableView eviscerated every decision I made in the design of that piece of work. It was pretty obvious that at that moment, everything was a bust. What I also did realise was also how high the bar was and that I had a lot of work to do.
Terrific story, well told.
UPDATE: Looks like the author deleted the original story.
This doesn’t seem a wise post to make, especially with the photos of Apple’s documents.
Yeah – he better have had permission to publish this. Otherwise…. 🙁
Post gone. And the poor lad has probably been fired.
Yup. Not surprising at all. Which means he didn’t have permission and he very well may be out of a job. 🙁
Missed it……by that much…
still on Googlecache for those who want to read it:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1rS8TUBbVVQJ:www.loopinsight.com/redirect%3Fs%3D/feed/%26perm%3Dhttp://www.loopinsight.com/2014/12/15/off-to-work-at-%25EF%25A3%25BF/%26perm_title%3DOff%2Bto%2Bwork%2Bat%2B%25EF%25A3%25BF%26u%3DaHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpdW0uY29tL0BlY2hvei9vZmYtdG8td29yay1hdC1jNTQxZTQ2OWUyOWM%3D+&cd=1&hl=el&ct=clnk&gl=gr&client=safari
So… it was the pictures of the Offer Package that Apple had a hard time accepting being spread across the interwebs? What else could be sensitive?
Btw I like the “Ah, paperwork”.
I read this earlier, and my first thought was… why would Apple let him post this – I’ve never seen anyone else doing it. I really hope he didn’t get fired over it, but it really doesn’t show a lot of understanding of what Apple is about on his part. Maybe he’ll get another chance in 4 more years?
Actually the first thing I did was say to my wife “hey – look at these Apple docs, they show the same attention to detail as any Apple product”. I look below the images and the author says the same thing 🙂
Looks like he failed the secrecy test before he even punched the clock. Hopefully they go easy on him. Bummer.
First rule of fight club…
Ouch. That’s gotta smart.
Don’t think he’s been canned but you won’t be hearing from him soon… He just received the special package, for those that have time to post about the first, a shitload of work.