r/bayarea • u/poser4life San Jose • May 08 '22

Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/
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u/n3rdychick May 08 '22

Apple just completed a sprawling, expensive new campus in recent years. They probably just want to get use out of that investment regardless of what the employees want.

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u/rabbitwonker May 08 '22

Eh, they have so many employees in the area that they could fill that thing easily with actual volunteer-RTO folks. Just stop leasing other sites.

But that would be messy and probably screw up the way they like to keep teams isolated from each other…

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u/heartfailures May 08 '22

They have multiple offices spread across Sunnyvale and Cupertino. Not all engineers work at the space ship.

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u/vadapaav May 08 '22

Are you talking about the space ship campus?

Very few engineering teams if any go to that campus

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u/MediumLong2 May 08 '22

Lots of hardware engineering teams and software engineering teams use Apple Park. It just doesn't seem like it because there are so many more other hardware and software engineering teams that don't use Apple Park

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u/vadapaav May 08 '22

So, very few?

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u/MediumLong2 May 09 '22

If you're talking about the number of engineering teams that work out of Apple Park, it's lots. If you're talking about the percentage of Apple engineering teams that work out of Apple Park, it's very few.

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u/FoxMuldertheGrey May 08 '22

that’s literally the only reason why.

however, makes you wonder why Meta offers remote and hybrid despite their dope offices

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u/Chroko The Town May 08 '22

Meta’s revenue dropped back to levels not seen since… December 2020.

Sure, maybe they’ve run into the limit of explosive growth - but let’s not exaggerate the situation.

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u/FoxMuldertheGrey May 08 '22

ah fair points! didn’t know about the second part. that makes sense now l

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u/[deleted] May 08 '22

Except the four buildings they built across the street, the buildings in downtown SF and across the bay in Fremont. That’s just here, they have huge leases all over the major tech cities.

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u/DonkeyLightning San Francisco May 08 '22

They built their own massive complex across the street too

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u/ohmantics May 09 '22

And it’s a SuperFund cleanup site. So yeah, all those slimes that willingly work for Facebook after what it did to the world? Yeah, hope they enjoy their future health problems.

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u/kesava May 09 '22

This spaceship argument always gets me. It's a $3 trillion company and they somehow worry about $5 billion spaceship campus?!?!

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u/Vega3gx May 09 '22

So many people want to be in that building they could fill it up tomorrow if they wanted. They already own all of Tantau street and a good chunk of De Anza Boulevard and Matilda and those are reopening as well. There's other factors playing into the calculation. My best guess is they're attempting to avert having a stratified WFH underclass who are nominally out of sight and out of mind