How to get a dream job at Apple, to give up and abandon it after a month
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
This is the story of why Jordan Price, who wanted to get a job at Apple, having achieved her, resigned a few weeks later. The history of the values and motivation, as told on behalf of the Jordan.
About a month ago, after several years of working as a designer in various industries, freelancing and create successful and not-so start-ups, I was invited for an interview at Apple. That was incredible. I've updated the portfolio and feel worthy candidate for Apple. In my eyes, this job has been an accomplishment every designer planet.
Appointed for an interview, and I immediately began to prepare for the tricky issues and complex design dilemmas, which I would have had a chance to decide before the design team. Also, I thought that in such a large company would have to go through several testing stages before it will make the final decision. Instead, I was waiting for a standard interview with three employees, which lasted less than an hour. I was returning from Cupertino in San Francisco in a pleasant surprise, simultaneously scrolling in mind recent events. I did not want to feel not ready to abandon, but it seems that everything went well.
On the same day I got a call and was offered the position of designer in the mobile unit. I was filled with feelings, and I could not resist and not to scream with delight as soon as we finished the conversation. All around I admired my new place of work. Post to Facebook gained more Likes than the news of the birth of his daughter, and the people with whom I have not spoken since the addition of friends, did not stop sending me greetings. I changed the signature on Twitter, and the number of followers began to skyrocket. Congratulations was so much that I decided to have a party, which took place could not be better. I am sincerely happy about it, how many people celebrated together with me to achieve this.
I do not sleep at night and terribly nervous on the eve of the first working day. It seemed to me that the proposal Apple confirmed my talent designer. I recalled the unusual path that led me to Apple. How will this affect my career? What will I do? Where it lead me? I iOS-app finish, on which he worked in his spare time? In my head I had a lot of questions.
And it all started: a strict timetable, long way to go to work - I was one of those bustling people who travel from San Francisco and back on the shuttle with Wi-Fi. on a twist I enjoyed the fate of transport, at one time provoked serious economic and cultural changes in his native San Francisco, and became one of the technicians, "which destroy town". I have not seen a daughter due to a lack of flexible hours and my salary has decreased significantly. Excuses I found in prestigious positions, which will become a promising entry in the summary.
Start was very difficult: fell a bunch of passwords, accounts and logins at me. I have access to the server received only a month later. In the appendage were meeting that is detrimental to productivity, but they were a necessary evil for a huge company that creates high-quality innovative products. It was annoying, but I was hoping that just need time to get comfortable and get used to.
But then it became worse. My boss, known for his harsh statements in address employees, began to terrorize me. Constant reminders that the contract may terminate forever if I do not do certain things; hover over me in the best tradition of sitcoms c requirements to finish the job that he urgently wanted to see - all this only worsened the situation. I felt like a teenager on a lousy position in retail, are not part of a professional team in one of the most technologically advanced companies in the world.
I work with the best designers of the perfect product. I am impressed by the attention that Apple gives design: Every detail, pixel and user interaction pondered more than once, before we get into production. Food in the cafe is wonderful, but from its new iPad Air, I love it. In all this, I was trying to find an excuse machinations that are constantly preparing boss. Expectedly, it has not brought the desired result: bad jokes and negative, that ever listen to, impair productivity. As a result, I became one of those who is looking forward to Friday and met with fear Monday morning. Neither family nor friends did not want to hear that the work at Apple are not so good.
"Do it for your resume," "you're just starting, you can not just pick up and throw", - they loved to repeat.
This morning I overslept and missed the bus that stops at the house. I got stuck in traffic and was glad not to have to travel this road daily. Nevertheless, the idea that instead I could take back the daughter to kindergarten, I used to do in the morning before it began to work at Apple, did not come out of my head. Arriving, I immediately went to a scheduled meeting. Everything went well and I returned to the workplace, where, by way of greeting, let the boss in my address another insulting "joke". Can I leave work before the end of the contract? How do I find a new job if I am stuck in Cupertino? Maybe change the team or vmazat him once and put everything in its place? These questions swirled in my head while I was trying to figure out how I get out of the situation.
After lunch, I erased the details of your iPad, copied the files on which he worked, to the server, leave all that belonged to the company, on the table, got into his car and went home. However, I left the boss a message, in which he wrote that he was the worst manager, with whom I I had to work, and that I renounce his leadership - no matter how well looked company name in the summary. Firm-intermediary, which helped make the contract, was furious because of what I have to jeopardize their relationship with Apple's, and accused me of being unprofessional. I had a row with a recruiter, who made great efforts to ensure that I got this job. The situation worsened my once irresistible urge to get into Apple.
I'm not sure how it will turn back to me in the future, but I wished I had tried so hard to get a job in this company.
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