Ex-Apple engineer: Siri hired a native Italian speaker for QA back in 2014
jdluk87 · x · 2026-11-09
A former Apple employee shares a fun fact: Siri's QA team needed a native Italian speaker in 2014, and that's partly how he got hired — his way into Silicon Valley. A light industry anecdote hinting at how early voice-assistant localization teams were staffed.
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