EyeCandy QA (2017-2019)

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This was the last job in my Apple career. I worked on the Eye Candy team once before for 6 1/2 years, the longest job I held at Apple.

After the disaster of the Watch Hardware team, I really needed an anti-dote. I called up my old manager, John Louch, and asked him if there was a spot on the team. As incredible luck would have it, the person that replaced me 6 years earlier had just been fired.

I was back on the team!

There were two new members, both of whom I liked and respected greatly. They were working on some cool stuff, including Sidecar which recently shipped and the new screencapture. Also, they were rewriting everything in Swift! Bonus.

Sad trombone

What I discovered was my previous job on the hardware team had really sucked the life out of me. I just could not get motivated again. Maybe a day or two a week, I had a spurt of productivity, then I reverted to sort of a zombie state..

Twenty years

One month after my twentieth anniversary of starting, the year after the first iMac shipped and when $50m was considered an amazing quarterly profit and the company was worth $4 billion, I quit.

As I mentioned in my first post, my original plan was to stay 2 years and see if Apple survived. Now it’s a $1 trillion company.

RIP: April 12, 1999—May 1, 2019

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