As I have posted in the past, I am now working for the cupertino fruit company in their smart phone division. All I can say without leaking any confidential info is that:
1) The culture is super secretive here, your teammates may not know what you are working on, some even have a black cloth on their bench. Everyone gets a shared office and it must be locked when no one is around, on a floor that is always locked. People need to badged in every layer of security not just showing their badge. When a visitor from vendor shows up, there is a security alert that everyone must hide their stuff. Business travel is secretive, you are not suppose to tell your co-worker where you are going (other than you are going). Unmarked secret labs are everywhere and you don't know it until you are told to meet someone somewhere. All important large meetings are badged so if info leaked out they will trace down to who leaked it and fire/sue the leaker. Every conversation about a project is on codename, and you are not suppose to talk about it until he/she/them signed an NDA about the project (not just the general NDA you sign when you joined the company).
2) Free dinner! every night regardless of you working or not in the team (not the entire company though), but most people do work 10-11 hours here a day. Fridge and cabinet are full of health and some unhealth snacks, energy drinks, soda, and sometimes OJ are everywhere for free, as well as fresh fruits like orange, pears, etc that are stocked on a regular basis. Yeah, I know, you grow out of it after a few weeks and you have a family to go home to, but still exciting to see it.
3) The IT department sucks. Everything were automated and falls through the crack until you call. Desks / Ergo were set wrong and they leave it alone until you threaten to file an injury report.
4) You get refurbished computers for work, but darn it, they are powerful. I got a Xeon E5520 that shows up as 16 processors on task manager (dual socket quad cores I assume), and a dual core laptop that has 4GB of ram.
5) Equipment they buy is top of the class, but sometimes they bought the wrong thing and building a set of code for testing takes 3 hours!!! I though SanDisk was bad but that was only 30 mins to 1 hour max.
That's all I can say without getting myself or anyone else in trouble.
1) The culture is super secretive here, your teammates may not know what you are working on, some even have a black cloth on their bench. Everyone gets a shared office and it must be locked when no one is around, on a floor that is always locked. People need to badged in every layer of security not just showing their badge. When a visitor from vendor shows up, there is a security alert that everyone must hide their stuff. Business travel is secretive, you are not suppose to tell your co-worker where you are going (other than you are going). Unmarked secret labs are everywhere and you don't know it until you are told to meet someone somewhere. All important large meetings are badged so if info leaked out they will trace down to who leaked it and fire/sue the leaker. Every conversation about a project is on codename, and you are not suppose to talk about it until he/she/them signed an NDA about the project (not just the general NDA you sign when you joined the company).
2) Free dinner! every night regardless of you working or not in the team (not the entire company though), but most people do work 10-11 hours here a day. Fridge and cabinet are full of health and some unhealth snacks, energy drinks, soda, and sometimes OJ are everywhere for free, as well as fresh fruits like orange, pears, etc that are stocked on a regular basis. Yeah, I know, you grow out of it after a few weeks and you have a family to go home to, but still exciting to see it.
3) The IT department sucks. Everything were automated and falls through the crack until you call. Desks / Ergo were set wrong and they leave it alone until you threaten to file an injury report.
4) You get refurbished computers for work, but darn it, they are powerful. I got a Xeon E5520 that shows up as 16 processors on task manager (dual socket quad cores I assume), and a dual core laptop that has 4GB of ram.
5) Equipment they buy is top of the class, but sometimes they bought the wrong thing and building a set of code for testing takes 3 hours!!! I though SanDisk was bad but that was only 30 mins to 1 hour max.
That's all I can say without getting myself or anyone else in trouble.
