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Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)

Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)

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NOTE: This is just my experience on Aperture. Many hundreds of stories aren’t in here because I didn’t experience them myself.

This project is tricky to write about as there was so much positive and negative emotion involved — a real roller coaster.

Paul Marcos was an engineer on Mail with me and unofficially my mentor. He was a huge reason I joined the team in the first place. When I heard about him leaving Mail, it was like a punch in the gut. I asked where he was going, and he couldn’t say. That’s Apple for you.

Then he said …

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Mail team (2000-2004)

Mail team (2000-2004)

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Interviewing

Sometime in the summer of 2000, I interviewed with the Mail team.

I never intended to work in software engineering but I desperately wanted to work on Mac OS X, which was working on releasing the Public Beta within a few months. So a bunch of interviews with the Mail team.

The short summary is I sweated and laughed a lot. I alternated between being certain I was getting the job to being sure I wasn’t.

My most intimidating interview was with Scott Forstall, who was then was the head of applications and frameworks and the manager of the Mail …

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My first job at Apple: AppleCare (1999-2000)

My first job at Apple: AppleCare (1999-2000)

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As I mentioned in a previous post about how I ended up at Apple, it was when I was handed a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.0 to bring home in my first day of interviews that I decided I had to be a part of Apple.

AppleCare (1999-2000)

My first job at Apple was doing data analysis on what people were calling Apple Support about it. It was primarily was is now called “Classic” macOS, but included all of Apple’s software products. It sounds boring, but I loved it and it had a real impact. I was the first …

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