Pretty sure he's widely acknowledged as a guy who was an insufferable prick to work for (or an asshole Dad in the case of his daughter). Plenty of stories of unpleasant interactions with him.
My personal favorite of the early Apple stories was the one where Jean-Louis Gassée saw him park his big dumb Mercedes in a disabled parking spot and said "I never realized those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped" [0].
>Pretty sure he's widely acknowledged as a guy who was an insufferable prick to work for (or an asshole Dad in the case of his daughter). Plenty of stories of unpleasant interactions with him.
Yes, we have anecdotes (plus all the other nice things people said about him, including his daughter in her book and the author of TFA elsewhere in Quora).
Those are not what he is remembered about though, but for building one of the biggest companies on Earth (at times, the biggest), plus doing it twice in his 20s and in his 40s, while also building two other companies (one worth billions for its movies, the other sold to his first company for half a billion), plus defining several modern consumer tech markets and/or phenomena.
And of course, there are far far worse employers than a demanding jerk (abusers, rapists, racists, thieves, even murderous CEOs and founders) - and with less saving graces and nowhere near the same results.
He was also remembered as being hired as a line engineer at Atari early on in his career who by all accounts would have been fired almost immediately if it hadn't been for Wozniak doing a lot of his work for him.
Entrepreneur most definitely, engineer... not so much.
But even then, probably still a better engineer than many people who are smugly declaring that he wasn't a good engineer.
After all, he was hired by Atari, and got parts delivered to him personally by Bill Hewlett and an internship at HP as he was a young electronics enthusiast.
Of course if he's being compared to Wozniak, well different league.
Also, at least per a lot of his defenders, most (maybe not all ) of the anecdotes were pre-NeXT Steve vs post-NeXT Steve...albeit who knows what to believe...
