Apple's Director of Machine Learning exits over return-to-office policy

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11 points·nickmain··5 comments

Also being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31298313

(Disclaimer: ex Apple, loved it, had great role in engineering)

Sounds like embarrassingly entitled attitude to me, if true.

Also, the reason in Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras for NOT working remote, around where I worked, often involve necessity of accessing extremely expensive capitalized expenditures of equipment that are physically at work. As a representative (real) example, it's not like teams using a million dollar X are going to have individual duplicates of X (say, a CT scanner) purchased for each team member, so they can be remote.

What a self-centred take. Not everyone has the same priorities as you, and if he values wfh more highly than whatever the benefits of working for apple are, then why would you call it “entitled” to decide to quit rather than go back to the office? I would quit rather than go back to the office, and i don’t have the options that the Director of ML at apple has!

These aren't my priorities; I DID leave to NOT work on-site.

(that coincidentally matches your point, i believe)

They are Apple engineering priorities, and a condition of employment signed by the employee.

Why can't Apple allow individuals who need to physically access equipment to go on campus on their own, be in the room by themselves, without demanding that they be exposed to groups of other people for days?

If just one person is ill, then many others will get ill in an office environment.

But scheduling a person to use equipment and having an hour between people to circulate the air properly should be doable. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Apple engineers can obviously work from home, so why not let them if they choose to do so?

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