Att sitta dag in och dag ut och bara kontrollera och bedöma appar som vill ta klivet in i App Store är det nog ingen här som rankar som sitt drömjobb – inte ens om man få sitta på Apples högkvarter i Cupertino.
Mike Lee – en före detta ingenjör på Apple – berättar för Business Insider hur underbemannad aveldningen som har hand om bedömningen av alla appar är, och hur en stor del av deras jobb är att sålla igenom en hög med undermåliga appar som många gånger innehåller vulgära bilder så som på manliga könsorgan.
“It’s a very serious problem, trying to filter out things that no one is there to see. Somebody has to sit there and filter out all those d*cks. You can’t let all those d*cks get through. You have to err way on the side of safety. You have to have people sitting there looking at things that may or may not be d*cks all day long. Apple refuses to farm stuff out to massive groups of people. They insist on having actual smart, educated, well-trained people doing the job. So that means they have to have some of their actual employees sifting through a pile of d*cks.”
“The only way to deal with it is to set the bar so far away from d*cks so that even a picture of a cucumber gets blocked by accident,” he says. “Because if you don’t, you have people spending hours and hours of conversation on whether something is a pubic hair. It’s a huge waste of time.”