How Important Is the Apple Experience When You're Interviewing for Jobs?

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In silican valley, the suite of interview questions you typically encounter when you're interviewing for jobs are about linked lists and do you know tenser floe. And again, it's the liberal arts that provides the grounding for that superthats counter intutive. i think getting a flexibility, being able to answer the sort of more general questions about what you like and what's good, and what your higher level goals are.

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.