I worked with Steve Jobs as a software engineer straight out of college. It was like playing on a great sports team.

Thu, 01/18/2024 - 05:00

Mac team members at the Mac introduction at the Flint Center. Left to right standing: Rony Sebok, Burrell Smith, Steve Jobs, Joanna Hoffman, and Hasmig Seropian; kneeling is Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld. — Mac team members after introducing the Macintosh computer. Left to right standing: Rony Sebok, Burrell Smith, Steve Jobs, Joanna Hoffman, and Hasmig Seropian; kneeling is Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld.
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Rony Sebok got a job at Apple straight out of Harvard in 1983 working on the Mac team.
She worked with a small team of software engineers under the direction of Steve Jobs.
Sebok said Jobs was a visionary — but he'd tease her about wearing khakis and shirts.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Rony Sebok, the co-founder of 1 Beyond, about her time working at Apple. The following has been edited for length and clarity.