【美国】前苹果工程师：TimCook使苹果公司变成了一个无聊的运营公司

Former Apple engineer: Tim Cook made Apple a 'boring operations company' 

There's less internal conflict inside Apple - and that's not necessarily a good thing, according to one former employee.

Bob Burrough, a former Apple engineer, told CNBC that the invention of the iPhone came, in part, out of the chaos of Apple under co-founder Steve Jobs.

"At Apple in 2007, organizationally it was the wild west," Burrough said. "I was hired under a particular manager, but for the first two years worked on projects that had virtually nothing to do with that manager's core responsibility. That's because the organization wasn't the priority, the projects were the priority. It was the exact opposite of 'not my job.' It was 'I'm here to solve whatever problems I can, irrespective of my role, my title, or to whom I report.' It was wild. But it was also very rewarding, because everything you did had maximal impact on the product."

But today, the "dynamic has clearly and distinctly changed," and Apple is much closer to his job at Palm, said Burrough, who most recently founded a 3D printing company called Bilt It.

"Working at Palm, the teams were highly organizational, [hierarchical] and responsibilities were siloed," Burrough said. "There was a clear sense that each person had a clear responsibility, and rarely deviated from it. When you went to someone for help solving a problem 'not my job' was a common response."

    一位前雇员认为，苹果公司内部冲突较少并不一定是件好事。

    前苹果工程师Bob Burrough告诉CNBC，iPhone的发明部分来自于苹果公司创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯带来的混乱。

    "2007年的苹果公司在组织上像是狂野的西部，"Burrough说。"我是一个被聘请的经理，但是在头两年的时间里，我的工作几乎与该职位的核心责任无关，因为重中之重的并非组织而是项目。这种工作模式与'事不关己'相反。我在这里解决我可以做的任何问题，而不用顾及到角色、头衔、隶属等各种因素。这是非常野性的，但也是非常有益的，因为你做的一切都对产品有最大的影响。"

    但是现在，"现状明显变化"，Burrough说，苹果公司更接近他在Palm的工作。

    Burrough说："在Palm工作时，这些团队组织分明，责任细化。每个人都有各自明确的任务和责任，很少偏离轨道，而当你去帮助其他人解决问题时，'这不是我的工作'会浇灭你的热情。"

（翻译：曹昀杰）

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http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/17/tim-cook-made-apple-boring-operations-company--former-engineer.html