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What Apple Employees Say About The Company's Internal Corporate Culture

想知道 Apple 的員工們是如何評價自己公司內部文化？


最近有人在問答網站Quora上提了一個問題：What is the internal culture
like at Apple? 本文對一些有意思的答案進行了整理。




Justin Maxwell, user interface designer: First rule of Apple, don't
talk about Apple.

Justin Maxwell，UI設計師：蘋果的第一條法則，就是從來不議論蘋果。

"If I was still at Apple, I would not be responding to this question,
nor would I feel wronged for not being able to.… The general idea is
this: You are part of something much bigger than you. The ideas you
talk about in the hall, the neat tricks you figured out in CSS, the
new unibody machining technique, that's part of your job, something
you are paid to do for Apple's success, not something you need to blog
about to satisfy your ego. Don't f--- it up for everyone."




Anonymous employee as reported on Macrumors: The cafe is awesome.

匿名員工甲：餐館很不錯。

"The Apple Campus itself is an amazing place, with the huge building
surrounding a central Quad with grass and sidewalks and the amazing
cafeteria: You get trays and silverware just exactly like in College,
and go pick from a large handful of sushi, Mexican, make-your-own sandwich
or salad, or countless other options, then check out at a register before
sitting down inside or in their little Outdoor Cafe in the Quad. Even the
food is running at 100% throttle, with the Cafeteria crowded and bustling,
and even the Chefs dressed perfectly and clean-white smocks with black Apple
hats on, doing their part to keep everyone fueled and running their war at
100% efficiency."

「蘋果的總部是個不錯的地方，綠草如茵，鳥語花香，當然不得不提的是裡面
的餐館：跟你在學校裡見到的一模一樣，各種自助餐隨便吃。食物補充的很快，
餐館裡人頭鑽動，廚師們身披白袍頭戴黑色蘋果帽，確保了每個員工能及時充
電，以 100% 的效率工作。」


Brandon Carson, contractor: "Your work is peer-vetted."

Brandon Carson，合同工：「你的工作內容會時刻受到同事的審核。」

"They desire and demand a collaborative atmosphere. Your work is peer-
vetted -- we had to present our work to the team and take feedback. At
first I found this a bit disruptive, cause I'm used to working on my own
projects in a silo, but at the end of the day, the collaboration ensured
a better product. And the work didn't progress too far without checks and
balances. More companies need to operate like that internally."




Chad Little, former Apple designer: When Steve was alive, he got what he
wanted.

Chad Little，前蘋果設計師：賈伯斯在世的時候，一呼百應。

"Apple is a pretty divided mix of typical corporate red tape and politics
mixed in with startup level urgency when the direction comes from Steve.
If you have a project that Steve is not involved in, it will take months
of meetings to move things forward. If Steve wants it done, it's done faster
than anyone thinks is humanly possible. The best way to get any cross
departmental work done was to say its for Steve and you'd probably have
it the same day."

「蘋果挺分裂的，它有著普通大公司所有的繁文縟節，但當賈伯斯發令的時候，



Simon Woodside, program manager in Core OS: We terrified engineers into
secrecy.

Simon Woodside，Core OS的程式經理：為了讓工程師保密，我們不惜對他們進
行恐嚇。

"The best example I can give was something of a side-project that I worked
on in 2001, called Marklar. This was actually the beginning of the effort
to port OS X back to the intel platform ...

…Each time we moved forward we would discover some part of the system
that needed some changes. My job was to find the right person to make
those changes -- but to do it without revealing Marklar to anyone else.
So I would go to the director of their group and inform them about Marklar...
They would then identify a specific engineer for me.

Next I'd scare the engineer by telling them how bad things would be if
anyone inside or outside knew what I was going to ask them to do. They
would verify with their director, and hopefully be able to fix the relevant
problem. We'd slip them some PC hardware if needed or preferably use Virtual
PC or the like to be more inconspicuous. They certainly couldn't tell their
co-workers about this work.

Personally, I didn't talk either ... my close friends and family knew I was
working on some secret project but they didn't find out what until Steve
himself made the announcement. Apple had total control of the message. The
secrecy paid off big time for the company."




Anonymous: It's awful, but the food is nice.

匿名員工乙：公司糟透了，但餐館還不錯。

"Generally speaking it is a pressure cooker and all communication is
one directional (guess which way that is).

..Paranoid management, disrespect, constant tension, and long hours sum
up most of the real culture in operations ... Most of the people in SDM
(supply demand management) see it as something they need to suck up for
a few painful years after b-school so they can move on to a better gig
with the Apple brand on their resume.  Like the investment banking of tech.
Culture here is strictly top down: any attempt to streamline, impact change,
or even discuss a better way to do anything is strictly frowned upon when
it comes from the bottom.  Work longer/harder, don't complain or try to fix
any of the myriad broken systems or processes, and don't forget that there
are 10 people lined up outside to take your spot (your manager won't forget).

Work here at your own risk.  On the upside, cafe food is pretty good and
dress is casual."

「總的來說，公司就是個壓力鍋（高壓環境），所有的交流都是自上而下的......



Richard Francis, formerly of Intel, who worked on a project with Apple:
"all the maple surfaces in all the retail stores are harvested at one
particular time of the year in Canada so they all look the same."

Richard Francis，前Intel員工，曾與蘋果進行項目合作：

"1) There is a fairly heavy corporate controlling hand governing a lot
of what Apple locally can / can't 'do' as a business. That made for a fair
degree of tension with some senior staff coming in from other parts of
the technology industry.

2) The brand is guarded with a zeal that borders on zealous obsession.
For instance - I heard (unconfirmed) that all the maple surfaces in all
the retail stores are harvested at one particular time of the year in
Canada so they all look the same. The store layouts are closely monitored
for consistency - often Jobs would go along to the local ones on the
West Coast of the US just to 'observe' them..

3) The atmosphere is not as zanily creative as you might imagine. It's
very structured, very process driven - and that ties in with the comments
from the ex-employees about launches coming together as a 'puzzle'."




Anonymous: "Everything, and I mean everything, is decided by the marketing
team."

匿名員工丙：「公司的所有東西，都由市場團隊來決定。」

"Everything, and I mean everything, is decided by the marketing team at
Apple, and 2 reviewers in east coast newspapers. I was shocked and
flabbergasted at the role these reviewers had at Apple. As an engineer,
I was told to tend to feature requests that were made by Mossberg and
party. Scary, and makes me want to sell all my apple stock."




TC Dotson, position undisclosed: Apple is a walking contradiction.

TC Dotson（未透露職位）：蘋果就是一個矛盾的結合體。

"Apple is interesting.  On one hand, you have 'Think Different' propaganda
posters all over the wall (you have all seen these ad campaigns and know
what they are about).  On the other hand, Apple has the strictest rules
of any place I have worked.  Apple cares about its brand image above all
else."



http://www.businessinsider.com/what-a...corporate-culture-2013-10?op=1

http://www.techbang.com/posts/15147-l...-the-companys-internal-culture
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有些台面下的東西 總是和台面上很不一樣

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