May be easy to pick on Steve Jobs.... but how about he person that paid $175,000 for a piece of paper?
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Employment Questionnaire Filled in By Steve Jobs Going Up for Auction
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Employment questionnaire back then were easy. No wonder all the good jobs are taken 😂
he was 18, just started college, had no real employment history. And he was a unique guy. What do we really expect?
Spelling and grammar errors should knock off $100k but, it probobablely won't.
Would not hire him. He doesn’t have 20 years of experience and didn’t bother giving a typed response. Smh
He didn't create a "trillion dollar company". Tim Cook was responsible for the company getting the first trillion dollar valuation. Apple was nowhere in the direction by the time SJ died.
I don't expect much. This forum is so rude. They will even speak badly about a dead person. SMH.
Probobale ... That too from a guy who majored in "eng lit".How the hell are they suppose to get back to him? Just send a letter to "Steve Jobs" to Reed College.?
Jobs officially worked at Atari. Woz did not, aside from creating the famous Breakout prototype (which Atari did not end up using).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
"In 1973, Jobs was working for arcade game company Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California.[31] He was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100 (equivalent to $576 in 2019) for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, by using RAM for the brick representation. Too complex to be fully comprehended at the time, the fact that this prototype also had no scoring or coin mechanisms meant Woz's prototype could not be used. Jobs was paid the full bonus regardless. Jobs told Wozniak that Atari gave them only $700 and that Wozniak's share was thus $350 (equivalent to $2,016 in 2019).[32][1](pp147–148, 180) Wozniak did not learn about the actual $5,000 bonus (equivalent to $28,797 in 2019) until ten years later. While dismayed, he said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him."
I'll be honest, I wouldn't have hired that guy...for anything, based on that alone. Although, I might have given him an interview because of the unconventionality of it. If you were looking for someone not out of a standard college mold, the paper makes it obvious you have at least a potential candidate.
Some of the best programmers I know are musiciansPersonally I'm shocked by the number of REALLY good programmers I know who have college degrees that aren't computer related. <shrug>.
Thats true of many fields. Many universities have a pre-law major, but vanishingly few great lawyers chose that major.Personally I'm shocked by the number of REALLY good programmers I know who have college degrees that aren't computer related. <shrug>.
Yep. I'm a systems engineer and I have a BA in film and video production
I thought people are supposed to learn in college. How do you apply for a computer job? By saying you have a film&video BA?
Wozniak is the tech guy. Jobs is the marketing/visionary guy-he gave us OSX, iPhone, iOS, iPad, GUI, Mac(I guess😅). I like both for each. I don't think Jobs stole the credit, people give him the credit ignorantly.
Problem with Woz is he left early. His last act of genius I think the Apple II or something like that. I think he just wanted to play with electronics on his own, or they got too complex for him to figure it all out.