Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is one of the most sought-after companies by those looking for employment, although the workplace at Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it may seem attractive, the reality is that not everyone is satisfied. Speaking in a recent interview, Don Melton, a former manager of the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, claims that within the company Steve Jobs started many years ago a "culture" of the non-stop program for engineers, managers and more.
Sunday is a work night for everyone at Apple because it's the exec meeting the next day. So you had your phone out there, you were sitting in front of your computer, it didn't matter if your favorite show was on […] You were basically on until, like, 2 o'clock in the morning …
Regardless of the time of day the world is in, Apple employees must always be willing to come to work to solve problems, to attend meetings with their bosses, to implement new functions dreamed by their bosses and not only that. Although the hellish work schedule began under Jobs, Tim Cook the strategy continued and some engineers are woken up and called to the company to solve any kind of problems that arise.
You get an email forwarded to you that's not to you. It's from Scott, but it's a forward from Steve and it's just coming at this crazy hour, right? You just know that there's this firehose of emails that are just going out at 2:45 in the morning and there are VPs or executive VPs who are scrambling to get answers. And that was just week after week, month after month, over the years [...]
When you hear the so-called apocryphal stories about Tim Cook coming to work in the wee hours and staying late, it's not just some PR person telling you stories to make you think that Apple executives work really hard like that. They really do that. I mean, these people are nuts. They're just, they're there all the time.
The interesting part is that not only the employees have this work schedule without sleep, but also the vice presidents, both Tim Cook and many other members of his team come to work early in the morning and leave in the middle of the night, some of them only collecting towards 3-4 hours of sleep per day. Considering that bosses work late, employees must always be available, in the view of those within Apple, so if Tim Cook sends you an email at 2 in the morning, you must respond.
Despite this hellish schedule, Don Melton loved the work done at Apple until the moment he decided to leave and he is certainly not the only one of the same opinion.
