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Comment by mgh2 | Hacker News Reader

Of course we should not generalize, but these experiences should not be brushed off either - I suspect a bias towards Apple due to their fanbase.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/kpgs1x/my_experience...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605211

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I doubt it's a bias toward apple so much as Apple's a large company with a diverse set of teams. There are definitely some teams at Apple that I would never want to work for; there are also some teams at Apple that are pretty awesome.

I suspect it's the same at all of the FAANGs, frankly. (Setting aside companies you may not wish to work for because of general company policy/work reasons)

No, to some degree it is Apple. No doubt any larger corporation has its share of worse offenders. But some of the toxicity that exists within Apple is specific to its DNA. The secrecy, siloing across departments and teams, obsession towards not just customer satisfaction but ironclad schedules, middle managers allowed to act like warlords, maybe even the legacy of Jobs' abusive behavior baked into the corporate DNA- that's all uniquely Apple.

I work at Microsoft and am old enough to have long-term friends and acquaintances at Apple, AWS, Facebook, Google, and IBM. The only ones whom I never hear from regarding corporate infighting between teams work at Oracle, and I suspect they keep changing the subject because it’s too traumatic…

It’s not merely politics or teams in-fighting. It’s straight up unprofessional, abusive, insulting behavior that goes unchallenged. It’s belittling, bullying, traumatic environments that everyone accepts as is or are completely oblivious to because of an organization-wide code of silence. Mentally damaging.

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