Career Advice About Apple

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it is unethical or rude to not respond to some recruiter messages at all or to random people asking if you're available to start a business on LinkedIn? I have a lot of them and know what's it like to be ghosted by companies as an interviewee so wouldn't want to offer the same treatment, on the other hand it takes me a lot of time to craft even a single answer, what's your take on this ? To be honest some offers are also low-ball offers that it makes me not want to respond at all :)) but I wouldn't want to be rude to people.

I was a former startup founder and companies like FAANGMULA (Meta, Google, Apple in particular) have reached out to interview me for senior SWE positions, how should I chose any one company (these options or others), that I think might want me to recreate the type of IP that was in my startup paying me a salary instead of acquiring me (if I were to do my company again), which they can cheap out on? If my goal is to have my own company again someday, should I work somewhere else less related to my expertise (just need it to pay the bills for a few years before trying again)? Or do I go somewhere, think I can learn, won’t necessarily get promoted or get paid more and sacrifice my IP that these companies (or other smaller startups), could actually end up owning?

I'm trying to learn more about the different career trajectories in tech. I come from a data science background, and I'm interested in the software engineering path. It would be nice to understand what my life would look like if I were to make the switch.

Hi all! I have an upcoming Apple interview round, for which I have been asked to interview in C language. I have been working in C at work, so I wouldn’t mind. But there are some questions which require DS which I am comfortable with in Java but not in C[Example: Hashsets] .

Did anyone have any similar experiences?

I'm exploring other paths in tech, including SWE. For the software engineers out there, I would love to understand why you do what you do: What's the main thing that keeps you going?

My manager recently asked me to switch gears on the nature of my work. The core deliverables of our team, the bread-n-butter, are in domain, say X. I had been working in domain Y for the past year and a half, where my manager (& skip level) were invested and trying to expand the scope of our team.

However, a couple of people working on X recently left our team and so now my manager told me that we will decrease our efforts in Y, and will need me to work on X too. We won't completely be abandoning Y though, he said.

I have mixed emotions about this change. I am happy that I will now be involved in the core work of my team. I am also sad because I had just started to make an identity and started being recognised as the go-to-guy for domain Y. I feel the case for my promotion from mid-level to senior would also weaken with this change since I wouldn't have very solid contributions in any domain (i.e. no compound interest).

How should I make the most out of this situation?