[tonyedgecombe]

>How do you communicate with the rest of the organization?

I wonder if Apple's renowned secrecy is a help with this. If nobody outside your small team knows what you are doing then it is hard for them to stick their oar in.

[ladberg]

For the record I was interning on Cameron's team while he worked on Rosetta 2 and didn't even know myself what he worked on (the rest of the team and I were working on something else). I only found out later after it was released!

[iwontberude]

Apple is like this, I have seen plenty of instances where you have one person carrying a team of 5 or more on their back. I always wonder how they manage to compensate them when it’s clear they are getting 10x more done. Hopefully they get paid 10x, but something tells me that isn’t true.

[markus_zhang]

Maybe getting interesting work is a better perk than $$, especially when Apple is already paying top dollars?

I'd imagine a lot of people are willing to do things for free.

[tonyedgecombe]

When I was consulting I saw that everywhere. A team of ten people would have one or two primary contributors and often one person who had a negative impact on productivity.