News flash: Dan Fernandez from apple

[Sven Meier]

Good News.

Dan said that some of us will be invited at the end of next week for interviews in CA.  They are intending to form a Boston center in Newton.

-Sven

[Sven Meier]

Yes, as Joe corrected in it is David Fernandez.

I mentioned on one of the calls that I had an interview with the Director of CPU Design Engineering at Apple.  Strangely enough I was his TA for his computer architecture class at Berkeley.

Dan Murray

Director, CPU Design Engineering at Apple

He gave me a very high level interview and I gave him the answers I believe in and that I am sure he wanted to hear.  He has a bit of an older view of IBM from interviewing people in the past.  I told him things like if you ask mainframe designers now they will tell you how important power is, more so than pure performance, as many customers are telling us no more power, thus low-power = more speed, more computes, more value.  I told him that having ones own tools is only necessary if there is a very specific goal/feature that you can only get by doing it yourself.  I mentioned that that our synthesis tool certainly stands up to the best in industry AND does particular latch clustering that no industry tool does. Etc...  Like other "customers" I have talked to they like that we have not been "brainwashed" by IBM. :)

He said they were considering opening a place in Boston and I mentioned to him that Qualcomm opened up a site in the same building as AMD to poach.  I was hoping this would scare them into creating a Boston site ;)  I also told him that he would have to check to see if anyone in the group was willing to move to CA.  I still was not sure how serious they were about it.

Just today I got was a call from David Fernandez, a Sr. Apple Recruiter, who said that my interview went well and they wanted to bring some of us in for an interview.  I explicitly asked him if this would be for CA and he said no.  They would plan on us being in Newton.  I told him that I was fine with trips to California and he said at least initially there would be travel there.

So this is the real deal.  I plan on giving Kshitij (worked with at Sun) a call later tonight.

-Sven

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From: Matthew Newman <matt.n...@gmail.com>
To: Sven Meier <sven_er...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: News flash: Dan Fernandez from apple

Did you have to talk with someone specific about Boston opportunites? I've heard from Jim Dillinger and someone from Santa Clara, but no one about Boston.

Matt

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[Sven Meier]

The way I read this was that they did not know before if they would expand their "site" here in Newton, so they initially told all the recruiters that we must go to CA.  Now they had a pow wow and decided that they are willing to expand the site here and referred to it as for "us."  

I was probably the first to hear this news.  This is "hot off the presses"  I assume you will be contacted with the new story.  This not to say that for some reason they want every integrator in CA, but I get the feeling they mean interviewing us for the Newton site which is created for us and probably future growth.  I could imagine that if they interview us and only invite a few, then a few are not given offers and only a few of us take it, then they might not be keen on expanding the site anymore.

My 2 cents

-Sven

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From: Matthew Newman <matt.n...@gmail.com>
To: Sven Meier <sven_er...@yahoo.com>

Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: News flash: Dave Fernandez from apple

Thats great news for you. Ive talked so far only with people that are interested if I move to california. I hope that ends up panning out. See you tommorrow.

[Joe Schmittlein]

I concur.  The fellow I had my phone screen with didn't know anything about location.  I had asked.   In a quick call I had with Dave Fernandez yesterday he brought up the subject and indicated definitely the job would be local here.  He didn't mention Newton.  Another point Dave made is, the reason they are having us go to CA for the interviews is strictly the number of people they'd need to fly out here was going to be too great.  With all the different disciplines we represent they'd need to send multiple teams.  So, again, the trip to sunny CA isn't to convince us to move.

I suspect the person Matt had his phone screen with was in the same boat as the fellow I did.  No information....   As a soon to be ex-IBMer, "no info" should be easy to understand.  :-)

I agree with Sven, this seems like a very real opportunity for us!!!

Joe


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Subject:	Re: News flash: Dave Fernandez from apple

Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:32:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Sven Meier <sven_er...@yahoo.com>
Reply-To:	Sven Meier <sven_er...@yahoo.com>
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[Joe Schmittlein]

Hi All,

I just got off the phone with Dave Fernandez.  There are many discussions going on at Apple about us.  There is an effort ongoing to get official approval for us working in MA at the highest level of Apple.  I didn't get the name of the person, but according to Dave it's someone who knows Marc from DEC.  That approval is holding up the process of arranging the visit next week.  Dave says the approval process is looking good, and was hoping to have an answer by now.  He'll be letting us know as soon as he has the answer, and hopes this will be over the weekend.

They are also thinking of having an open house for us in Newton before the trip to CA.

Joe

[Matthew Newman]

Looks like you guys were right. I was contacted by Dave Fernandez early today with pretty much what you two ( Joe, Sven ) have been saying. Certainly good news.

Matt

[Joe Schmittlein]

I many not be right often (and on the optimistic side even less often), but this was a really good time to be both.  :-)

I was also contacted by email early today (12:46AM).  Dave F seems to work strange hours.