I worry about Apple. Software quality has been dropping, but it's not Swift or some other specific technology that's the problem. It's talent. The company has had a hard time attracting very senior talent.
The difficulty is self-imposed and comes from leadership's strict policy of not paying market wages at the high end. Multiple hiring managers at Apple have complained to me that they've lost good people because the company just won't match offers from the Googles and Facebooks of the world. Apple refuses to acknowledge the reality of the market.
Given that Apple's most experienced people keep retiring and that Apple isn't replacing them with equals, I expect software quality to continue to drop until leadership decides to abandon its shortsighted comp restrictions.
The difficulty is self-imposed and comes from leadership's strict policy of not paying market wages at the high end. Multiple hiring managers at Apple have complained to me that they've lost good people because the company just won't match offers from the Googles and Facebooks of the world. Apple refuses to acknowledge the reality of the market.
Given that Apple's most experienced people keep retiring and that Apple isn't replacing them with equals, I expect software quality to continue to drop until leadership decides to abandon its shortsighted comp restrictions.
[Posting from a throwaway for obvious reasons]