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Apple Uses Hidden Web Page to Recruit for a 'Critical' Cloud Infrastructure Role

NYTimes does something similar for their engineering roles. Just open the inspector in your web browser.
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Gasu E. said:
According to my great expertise, highly sophisticated model, and very detailed calculations, 2769.31 would be sufficient.
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No such thing as having .31 engineers. Youll need to round up in this case.
 
Arran said:
Haphazard way to go about recruiting.

How likely is it that a really good, productive candidate will waste time rummaging around the internet looking for a secret job advert?

OTOH, candidates who do stumble across the advert...
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They apply and then shortly thereafter they are quietly disappeared. :rolleyes:
 
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Arran said:
Haphazard way to go about recruiting.

How likely is it that a really good, productive candidate will waste time rummaging around the internet looking for a secret job advert?

OTOH, candidates who do stumble across the advert...
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Interviewer: 'How did you hear of this position?'

Candidate: 'I was looking through the minified javascript sent to iOS Maps on my iPhone, you know, after hacking my WiFi router to dump what was sent through to the phone, and saw an address referenced which didn't look legit, downloaded what was at that address, then thought, if there is a "one.txt" there might be a "two" etc, and then when I found "forty-two.txt" and read it I saw that Apple was looking for someone to fill this position. Didn't seen anything of interest at "forty-three.txt" or above so decided to give applying to this a shot.'

I think the journey says a lot more about the candidate than the destination. If you want developers who will tenaciously pull at strings, a "scavenger hunt" at the end of which is an invitation to work with you is far from the worst way to go about things. I'm not sure if this was uncovered by following set steps in a path or by chance, but it reeks of the endpoint of a scavenger hunt.

And, no, I wouldn't expect this to be the only advert for this position if they want to fill it soon. On the other hand, it somewhat sounds like just a general position they are looking for: if a candidate comes along looking for this job, they want to hear from them regardless of the current project opportunities.
 
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HJM.NL said:
They've put Siri, bixby and Google now on different tests (look at YouTube). Siri is good at one thing: finishing last in all tests
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I use streetview many times to find a shop. But fly-over is nice too... don't understand the practicum needs of fly-over, but like it. Only 3 cities are supported over here while all the streets have streetview in Google maps :rolleyes:
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I accidentally came across a practical application for Flyover. One day I was trying to find a Jazz club I'd driven by numerous times. I kinda knew how to get there but had no idea where it was located since it's in the downtown area and the streets around there aren't very orderly to say the least. Well I got on Apple Maps and used Flyover to, well, flyover the route I'd drive to get there and voila, found it! It would've been impossible to do that with Streetview.

I feel like the free axis approach gives you better control and more practical applications than just an street level angle. Once Apple can incorporate their street level data to Flyover, it's gonna killer! Hopefully. :rolleyes:

Edit: You can use Flyover to 'pre-drive' your routes if you're going somewhere for the first time. You can also survey a particular area. Or just explore a city.
 
macfacts said:
You can't have 9 women make a baby in one month. What makes you think Apple can hire more people to catch up with the competition?
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Except that open space is a problem ... Open spaces work well for people in HR, marketing, and design, not engineers and developers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...pen-office-floor-plan/?utm_term=.c09f48db2f52
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You say that like it was your choice. It is iOS that is defaulting to Apple maps as the map app.
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Eh, designers are not thrilled about it either (at least none of the ones I ever met).
 
Avieshek said:
So, Unlimited cloud storage like Google Pixel users?
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Rocketman said:
Probably prep for Apple's Netflix competitor, and IoT infrastructure. Check one of my most recent posts.
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Michaelgtrusa said:
This tells me that they have something big coming.
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These are good predictions. With APFS about to roll out to Macs, I would also add "Time Machine to the cloud" as a possibility. With APFS snapshot capabilities, Apple should be able to offer a robust disk backup option and make money doing it. The Time Capsule has not been updated in a very long time, so I'm expecting something like this might be a logical replacement.
 
Ener Ji said:
These are good predictions. With APFS about to roll out to Macs, I would also add "Time Machine to the cloud" as a possibility. With APFS snapshot capabilities, Apple should be able to offer a robust disk backup option and make money doing it. The Time Capsule has not been updated in a very long time, so I'm expecting something like this might be a logical replacement.
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Double verification.

Apple has been trying to achieve cloud and ZFS for as long as I can remember dating back to AOL (Apple OnLine).
 
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tennisproha said:
I accidentally came across a practical application for Flyover. One day I was trying to find a Jazz club I'd driven by numerous times. I kinda knew how to get there but had no idea where it was located since it's in the downtown area and the streets around there aren't very orderly to say the least. Well I got on Apple Maps and used Flyover to, well, flyover the route I'd drive to get there and voila, found it! It would've been impossible to do that with Streetview.

I feel like the free axis approach gives you better control and more practical applications than just an street level angle. Once Apple can incorporate their street level data to Flyover, it's gonna killer! Hopefully. :rolleyes:

Edit: You can use Flyover to 'pre-drive' your routes if you're going somewhere for the first time. You can also survey a particular area. Or just explore a city.
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Maybe its different in the US, but over here only 3 cities are supported. Nothing changed to that number in two years. Hopefully Apple ups the speed a bit and incorporate the changes already made to the existing cities.
 
justperry said:
I always thought it was an incompatible licensing issue with Oracle and GPL.
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It's CDDL licensed and under the CDDL umbrella there are/were Sun patients. IIRC Sun wanted a bunch of stuff including some legal protections since there was a lawsuit going on. It was weird, but at that time BTRFS was being written and tested and Apple could have jumped there. I guess it's not all that important at this point other than ZFS and Butter are mature and the standard at this point.
 
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Apple Map has a long way to go. It does not provide navigation and transit in most of the countries. It has outdated maps/views in many countries. It does not cover all the regions in many countries. Siri still does not understand contextual conversation.
 
macfacts said:
Except that open space is a problem ... Open spaces work well for people in HR, marketing, and design, not engineers and developers.
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I fully agree. I also "suffer" from Open Space in our office as "introvert" IT guy. I can only survive with music in my ears to cover the noise around and create the impression of my own space. Understand that it is convenient for the companies to stack more people in (even more if some are traveling or work home office)
 
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