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Most people dream of using the normal way to work for Apple. For example, they will find some recruitment information or receive a call from HR. After that, they send their resumes and cover letters, and finally get a series of interview opportunities.
However, when an Apple executive looks at you and wants to work with you, your entry process is different from the average person.
Michael Gartenberg
This is the true story of Michael Gartenberg who is a technology industry analyst and currently works at iMore. Michael Gartenberg stated in the podcast of The Mac Observer that he had resigned to accompany him for three years to come to Apple as Senior Director of Product Marketing.
In his former career as an analyst, Michael Gartenberg participated in a conference call with Apple and discussed issues related to sales, market trends, and more. At the end of the meeting, Apple Vice President Greg Jozwiak told him "You have to wait five or six minutes first." Michael Gartenberg was puzzled at the time. "Deputy always doesn't talk nonsense with analysts, so I didn't just say something wrong to annoy him."
He felt that he and Apple should talk about it, but did not expect Jozwiak to give him a job.
"The phone rang. I took a look at the number 408 and started calling from Apple. I picked up the phone and heard over there and said 'hey Michael. I'm Joz. Now I'm a bit busy so I went straight to the subject. You want to Don't want to come and work with us?'"
| Welcome to Apple-style confidentialityAt first, Gartenberg didn't even know what he was going to do. "So I said to myself, 'Remember, this is Apple.'"
After the excitement, Jozwiak told him to move to Apple's Cupertino headquarters in California, and revealed to him that this new job had to be reported to Phil Schiller, senior vice president of the market, but Phil seemed to want to personally Gartenberg confided details about the job.
Phil Schiller
Gartenberg jokingly said: "It gave me a new job and asked me to move to the west coast. But I didn't mention anything about the nature of the job. I just told me that I can only tell you about it now. Phil will call you personally after a few days.'"
For several days after talking with his family, Gartenberg did not get any news from Apple. So he went to contact the company's recruitment department and also failed to find out about the job. The staff of the department said that "Phil wants to talk with you face to face with this matter," and suggested that he fly to California within two days.
At the moment he just got off the plane, Gartenberg received a text message asking him to meet with Hiroki Asai, an important marketing officer, on the same day because he was on a business trip.
"The next day, I had several rounds of meetings with Phil and his colleagues Joz, then Brian Croll for MacOS, Dave Moody for Mac, Michael Tchao for iPad, and Rona Okamoto for developer relations. Meet Phil's entire team."
| OfferIt looks like this is the team he will soon join as a senior director of the Global Marketing Department.
The next day, Gartenberg received a formal offer from the recruitment department. He didn't want to delve deeper into what he was trying to do at the moment. “All this experience at Apple has made me more and more interested in this place. I really want to stay here now.â€
"I've often been told, ' You used to be sitting in the room and talking to the media. But now you have to make it clear that Apple must be vocal. It's not something you can do yourself . '"
After joining the company, Gartenberg's frequency of tweets has been reduced. Not because some policies do not allow them, but because he really does not want people to know that their work does not reflect the nature of Apple's company. He is just silent. Collect some product information and organize it to make up the material for market analysis.
He also shared an anecdote during his work at Apple:
“This company did pay great attention to details. I remember that the first time I sent someone e-mail the other day. After I received the reply, I saw it. The bottom line says 'PS works here to pay attention to spelling.'â€
It turned out that he had labeled "the" as "hte".
Gartenberg finally decided to withdraw from the long Apple career, but he still liked the time here.
"Apple may be one of the most worthwhile places to work in the world."
Note: The first picture is from Apple's official website.