I think most reviewers usually respond negatively as they're the most vocal, but it would be true for all companies.
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Apple Plummets to Lowest Ranking Ever in Glassdoor's Annual List of Best Places to Work
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Spot on : his head was on the block.
Since he left the software has just got worse - love it how so many hear ....choose .... not to look at the facts and rewrite history when it came to Scott - gone for political reason .
That’s the extreme leftist way (Tim Cook): if you disagree, it must be chaos. Discourse is not permitted whatsoever.
Everyone must be on the same page these days. Even when they aren’t: fake it.
I agree it results in lack of innovation if the echo chamber walls get thicker.
Coupled with stellar ground breaking sales
You got little to no INcentive to deviate from the plan
I was wondering if anyone else noted the steep plummet of the ranking a bit over a year after Jobs died. During his period of ill health, from 2009 until his death in 2011, the ranking hovered between 19 and 22. The year after his passing, 2012, saw the highest ranking - 10 - which might correlate with a certain esprit de corps among employees mourning his passing. Then in 2013 the ranking falls 24 whopping points to 34, likely as the company was reorganizing upper management and corporate culture in the post-Jobs era. The fall the last couple of years from 36 to 84 is really astounding, particularly given that Apple corporate profits have soared at the same time. Whatever new directions Apple has taken the last several years don't appear to have been commensurate with employee satisfaction. Perhaps it's just coincidence, but it's interesting.
The Apple profits were needed to pay the bonuses to the executives and fund the construction of those show piece stores and Headquarter building. Also keep in mind how little Apple executives have decided to pay the retail sales employees.
Sure they plummeted on the list, but their rating is still pretty high. 4/5 stars on the website.
Standing up for LGBT rights and green energy hardly undermines their product and those issues are only controversial because conservatives use them in their own culture war. Not to mention that Apple’s market isn’t rural for the most part.
Any company in the Top 100 is considered a very good place to work.
As a current Apple employee it is a toxic place to work. I have been there for 3 years at the retail end and I'm looking for another job ASAP
It’s also fake news, the top 100 list as a concept:
Bad middle managers can easily ruin any experience, even “the best,” that have no idea what they’re doing beyond being authoritarian as can be in roles they don’t understand in the most basic sense.
I like your avatar of Ive w the notch hairdo haha
Tim Cook is widely hated within Apple. I mean, he basically used to run the stockroom, and now they’ve given him the whole company. It’s really sad. No vision, no quality control, no leadership.
He’s spent the last few years repainting Jobs’ old toys, but people are getting tired of that. Occasionally he tries to get involved with politics, and comes across as hopelessly naive. I think he does this to distract from his directionless leadership. When will the board get rid of him?
He’s spent the last few years repainting Jobs’ old toys, but people are getting tired of that. Occasionally he tries to get involved with politics, and comes across as hopelessly naive. I think he does this to distract from his directionless leadership. When will the board get rid of him?
This is an interesting comment.
I think when the small signs that you pointed out show a certain overall attitude of the company.
Top execs get absolutely staggering payouts, stock options etc. Guys at the bottom who do the crucial work are overlooked and perhaps undervalued.
I imagine it's the sort of place you spend a couple of years working at to build a great CV.
Free coffee, snacks etc doesn't cost all that much if you buy bulk and claim it back as an expense, so I don't know what Apple's excuse is? The company is started to smell of extreme greed from my perspective.
Again the latest Apple tech should be a given for every engineer/designer etc. Especially when Apple can essentially supply them at cost and then write it off as an expense. Plus you would be keeping your workers very happy. I don't really understand that corporate logic - my only answer is greed. But I'm not an executive so what do I know?
I’m kinda surprised in a way. I thought Tim’s complacency would have made it easier on employees. On the other hand, Apple seems so mismanaged these days it’s not so surprising.
I do agree. He's a good bean counter, poor visionary/CEO.
I don't even care if I agree with his politics or not. It really is cringeworthy when a tech company starts virtue signalling. Unless it's tech related they should stay out of politics.
Also if Apple really did care about doing the right thing, why didn't they massively speak out against over turning net neutrality? A voice like Apple could have really made a difference. Yet silence.
I should have expanded, my fault- Its not about just having a retail component, as those are primarily retail organizations and do not have as much operational diversity, and also not nearly as expansive in numbers as Apple. Apple would now be more similar to a department store than to Lululemon, being that the smallest Apple store will have many more employees than the largest Lululemon. How many people go into a store to complain about yoga pants? Ever overhear someone complain about phone signal or storage?
I'm just saying that despite a several spot drop in the rankings, this does not at all equate to Apple suddenly becoming a bad place to work. Its all about perspective and if you compared that same perspective, year over year, you likely will not see a commensurate drop.
One of the few things I admire about Cook is his liberal political outlook. My main difficulty is in correlating his liberal politics with his corporate policies - outsourcing to entities such as Foxconn and depressed wages of retail employees. I realize other CEOs in large corporations, such as Dell or Amazon and other multinationals, have similar corporate practices, but no one could ever accuse Michael Dell or Jeff Bezos of being "liberal" politically - quite the opposite.
I see a lot of comments mentioning the fact that there may be a lot of retail employees commenting, and that's why the score is low. But there will have always been retail employees leaving reviews, it's not a new thing. I worked in Apple Retail between 2011-2013 and still know some people that work there. The vast majority of people that I worked with across 2 stores no longer work for Apple, and the remaining ones I talk to say it's ****.
Websites like Glassdoor are very important. They provide public knowledge of salary information and company life.
Actually, I do, very well. And I know the "facts," to the extent not being on the inside and needing to rely on rumors forums. How about you, where do your "facts" come from?
Wasn't Forstall the senior VP in charge of those efforts?
1.) How do you know Tim Cook is hated with in Apple? Did somebody tell you that? Have you specifically worked within Apple to make that statement?
2.) No leadership? How so? Please explain why you believe Tim Cook has no leadership at Apple?
3.) Why would the board get rid of him? For what reasons? Under Cook, look how Apple as a Company has grown in their overall success Since Jobs passing in 2011.
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You deserve to be a Chinese farmer's son in your next life.