Apple Park may have been meticulously designed, but there seems to have been a tremendous oversight: none of the architects or managers realized that the company’s employees hate open office arrangements. Engineers are being asked to work at long tables with co-workers instead of cubicles or separate areas, which is a terrible idea for the easily distracted. The vice president of Hardware Technologies, Johny Srouji, said “f— you” when he was shown the plans.



“I heard that when floor plans were announced, that there was some meeting with [Apple Vice President] Johny Srouji’s team,” said Gruber. “He’s in charge of Apple’s silicon, the A10, the A11, all of their custom silicon. Obviously a very successful group at Apple, and a large and growing one with a lot on their shoulders.” Gruber continued, “When he [Srouji] was shown the floor plans, he was more or less just ‘F— that, f— you, f— this, this is bulls—.’ And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus … My understanding is that that building was built because Srouji was like, ‘F— this, my team isn’t working like this.'”

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