You were offered a job at gogand, but turned it down. Now you're coming back and saying that you want something. What's going on? You had sort of started taking calls from go recruiters. And so he said, ok, well, just go away. He was not pleased with me. But we got to the management job, you said that you wanted right in. So i thought there was just the barest little hint on the grape vine,. I signed the paper, and he said, yes, we're making a sellpone, and you're now on the team. A lot of people go through that. I don't want to ship a team
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.
They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.