Curry takes on Silicon Valley Day 5:
Apple, Facebook, Wakatime
3/12/2015
It was extremely nice of Dominic (Tom’s
father) to let us into Apple. There were no pictures allowed anywhere inside
the Apple building. We went into a conference room with some speakers/friends
of Dom. Dom spoke about how he works with stores like BestBuy, Radioshack,
Walmart, and Target on selling Apple products. The other two guys in the
conference room were in product development. Tomas spoke about how he
immigrated to the US and became interested in software engineering. I forgot
what the other guy did. Ann came in and spoke with us about how she was also in
product development.
We had a lunch/Q+A session with a few of
Dom’s friends. Then we went up to the top floor and saw the new apple facility
from a distance. We went to 1 Infinite Loop and saw the Apple store.
It was a hassle parking at Facebook. The
lots were completely full and valet was double-parking cars. We eventually got
in and toured Facebook HQ. The campus was unlike anything I’ve ever seen
before. From the facilities and restaurants on campus it was obvious Facebook only
wanted employees to commute from home to work, and run their errands while on
campus.
We met with Priya something, a
co-founder of Wakatime, during happy hour at our hotel’s pool. Wakatime is a
plugin for text editors that tracks how much time is spent working. I plan on using this tool in the future.
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