Originally Posted By: andym
ISTR reading the Warwick doc on their website a while ago.


A little frightening, but nobody from the thought police has yet mentioned it to me... that's the problem with the internet, stuff gets found and re-purposed frown

Originally Posted By: andym
The linked article did make me wonder how many serious programmers out there would really try to get a top-flight developer job at Apple by first getting a position in one of the retail shops? Surely there can't be anyone who's achieved that? Maybe in the sales side of the business but surely not development.


Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's no path of progression there. You pretty much have to be in Cupertino to do any development work, as I found. Anything remote tends to be retail/sales/marketing/support.

Originally Posted By: andym
I thought the tone of the article made it sound like there were legions of desperate Apple fanboys of varying technical ability, eager to do anything just to stand next to Steve in the lunch queue.


Being next to SJ in the sushi queue makes it very hard to chit-chat idly with your friends, believe me smile