Apple’s ‘Genius Bar’ once denied a job to one of the company’s top engineers
Sep05
In a weekend Op-Ed about ageism in the workplace, The New York Times retells the story of JK Scheinberg — a legendary Apple engineer — being denied a job at a Genius Bar. Scheinberg, an esteemed engineer that helped get Mac OS running on Intel processors, got a little restless after retiring from the company in 2008. Foregoing a life of golf and daytime television, at 54 Scheinberg decided to re-enter the workforce. The Genius Bar — Apple’s retail tech support unit — seemed an obvious fit. Scheinberg put in an application and quickly found that he was double the age of the…
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