Software Engineers: Apple’s Unsung Heroes?
Posted by Colin
The other day Jens Alfke made news when he announced he was leaving Apple. I first met Jens at WWDC2006, where I have attended a session that he and a mutual friend were giving. Afterwards I had dinner with him and some of his team, where I got to talk with him about his history with Apple.
Jens raises an interesting concern about Apple and how they treat their engineers. Those of us who were around for the pre-OS X days might remember that in every software, in the about dialog, there was a list of engineers who worked on the project. It never felt obtrusive, but I imagine that it gave engineers a chance to show their family and friends that their name had ended up on a finished product that they had been working on for the last six months. Read the rest of this entry »