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Pizza Cook job listing at Apple

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75 pointszacharytamas36 comments

> The cook will also prep and maintain all food items necessary to make a variety of pizzas (toppings, sauces and related prep).

Maintainable food items.

"Also, the cook should be able to test these modular food items to ensure they are bug free."

"A successful candidate will have 3 years experience using Test-Driven Cooking."

first, poison all the employees and burn down the restaurant. Then, write recipes to ensure that this does not happen.

"Employee performance will be judged by the number of Recipe Lines Of Code (RLOC)"

"Candidate must be familiar with high-level Recipe Markup Languages such as XPL (Extensible Pizza Language) and JSRN (JavaScript Recipe Notation)"

Candidate must be familiar with Agile cooking methodologies (the head chef is known for throwing things when angered).

This job does not use RESTful cooking practices.

and debug the problem with the foods by examining many, many dumps.

I wonder if they'll have an employee spend months in a room designing the perfect pizza box opening experience...

Clean, minimalist design

Notches to facilitate stacking while preventing damage

No cheese on the cover

Pizza does not shift while in transit

Easy to lift and re-close cover without damaging pizza crust

Box stays warm but doesn't get too hot

Channels delicious pizza smell directly outward toward consumer

However, it's only available in one size, and the other flavour - announced at launch - actually takes a year to become available.

And you are required to have an Apple ID to open.

Actually, they will make pizzas to order for you. I take advantage of this option often. :)

And the black pizza costs 100$ more.

And if you order online, you can get your name engraved into the pizza, free!

Apple actually DOES serve the pizzas on a recyclable plate reportedly designed by the industrial design team. A stack of them is visible on the left hand side of this picture: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2011-09-27-OutsidePizzaBar....

I'm glad this an Apple listing and they're not farming this position out to a third party. Reminded a tad of the Zynga hubbub about the Google chef, one of their most valued early employees:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/11/in-defense-of-google-chef...

Reminds me of when Exxon Mobile had a job posting for their Pizza Chef when they were the largest company in the world... wait, they definitely farmed out their pizza boy to a sub sub sub sub sub contractor. Good to see the largest corporation in the world still have at least a little heart :)

Having eaten there a couple of times, the pizza at the apple cafeteria was good. We would always comment on how the pizza chef was about 5ft tall. Perfectly sized to look in the oven w/o leaning over. Form following function in one way or the other. The job post doesn't discriminate this way...

I wonder if by neapolitan style they mean what New Yorkers call neapolitan pizza (what other Americans call New York style) or literally pizza from Naples. I assume the former, but either way this is making me hungry.

Apple should make this mandatory reading: http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

Why do you say that? Can you confirm what Jeff V is saying is not bullshit?

I am just curious; what would most likely be the salary for this position?

Yeah, seems like someone with 4 years experience with high demand brick oven/pizza tossing skills could make a killing on their own considering the mark-up on pizza.

Except pizza (well restaurants in general) is one of the most competitive markets there is. If you manage a 5% profit margin you're doing really well.

So that essentially means that pizza tossing skills is not high demand?

anyone else notice the job was in sacramento not cupertino? what type of office do they have in sacramento?

They used to have a manufacturing facility there (Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento), now it's an Apple Care call center and probably some other stuff.

Distribution and call center.

The funniest thing about this is that Apple, a company known for innovation, is just following the herd and assuming that you need a high-temp oven and to be able to stretch the dough "by-hand" to make a good pizza.

They know it's BS but know marketing is just as important ;)

Yes, Apple employees eat food. Some of them might actually like pizza. To provide good pizza, you need to hire a pizza chef. Is this really something "that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"?

Whoa.. a combination of my two favorite things, technology and pizza. I need this job.

A nice high hydration dough with a 3 day cold ferment. San Marzano tomato sauce.

Yes, my favorite VPN had nothing to do with networks. You might find some of this interesting, if you haven't seen it already... http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

edit (in case you don't know): VPN -> pizzanapoletana.org/index_eng.php

You deserve many more upvotes than I can give for that link! I just lost the last two hours at work reading and salivating.

I ended up at the Apple building in Sacramento after winning a holiday America. Pizza was good and the workplace seemed a pretty fun place.

so they have to make the dough, prep the sauce and toppings, stretch the dough, cook the pizzas? Is this a team of one?

It's obviously a metaphor for the company itself.

Yep. Pretty much any pizza-shop employee does those things. Obviously not all at the same time.

I'm working for the wrong company.

Amazing

There's got to be an app for this.

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