How does that affect a day to day Apple employee? Also it looks like the rating has nothing to do with how employees feel about Tim.
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Apple Plummets to Lowest Ranking Ever in Glassdoor's Annual List of Best Places to Work
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Is this sarcasm?
How did you read the article and come away with "low morale"? It's not what the article says at all.
This is a list of the best places to work. Companies that make this list aren't companies that typically have a lot of jaded angry people. Doesn't really conform to your quote.
Rant: Not sure how so many people are coming to the conclusion that Apple's drop in rank is a 1:1 correlation to something bad happening at Apple. As I said in an earlier post, Apple could have had a hypothetical score of 88 for every year from 2009 until today. That 88 could have them ranked as high as 10 and as low as 84. In forums I know we like to create elaborate scenarios to explain everything. Most of the time simple will do.
Diversity how? In hiring? In the customers they serve? How does a company being a diverse and equitable workplace upset an employee?
I've seen some small companies do this to help their internal morale. It really just depends on the company. But remember this is the USA, so be lucky to get anything. We are lightyears behind Europe on worker/employment benefits/treatment.
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Hiring everyone from the same Ivy League schools is not diversity. If they want diversity they need to hire from the trailer parks, ghettos and reservations in America.
Apple has ranked 84th on Glassdoor's annual list of the best companies to work for in the United States, after finishing no lower than 36th every year since 2009. In fact, heading into 2012, Apple was 10th on the same list.
It is Apple's lowest-ever finish over the decade that Glassdoor has published these Employees' Choice Awards:
o 2018: 84th
o 2017: 36th
o 2016: 25th
o 2015: 22nd
o 2014: 35th
o 2013: 34th
o 2012: 10th
o 2011: 20th
o 2010: 22nd
o 2009: 19thApple trailed well behind several other technology companies in the rankings, including first-place Facebook, fifth-place Google, 21st-place LinkedIn, 31st-place Adobe, 39th-place Microsoft, and 65th-place Yahoo.
It's not just technology companies that are on the list, with fast food chain In-N-Out Burger and Southwest Airlines among others that made the cut.
Glassdoor said the rankings are based on its proprietary awards algorithm, which calculated the quantity, quality, and consistency of company reviews submitted by employees between November 1, 2016 and October 22, 2017.
Apple earned a 4.3-star rating out of five during that period, compared to Facebook's leading 4.6-star rating. Glassdoor says the average company rating is 3.3 stars among the more than 700,000 employers reviewed on the jobs site.
Apple has an overall 4.0-star rating on its Glassdoor company profile. Apple CEO Tim Cook was ranked the 53rd best CEO of an American company on Glassdoor last year, with a 93 percent approval rating.
The rankings mirror a recent survey of the most ideal employers for tech professionals in the United States, in which Apple ranked fourth, behind Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. In that survey, however, Apple was ahead of Facebook.
We've reached out to Apple to see if the company has any comment about the results, and we'll update this article if we hear back.
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Why am I not surprised?
1 - Remember, this whole list is a group of the best places to work, even the lowest ranking company on it.
2 - The numbers are still pretty good. (4.3, versus an average of 3.3).
3 - Remember statistics: small changes cause large shifts on steep curves (see #1), but “plummets” is a pretty good way to lure clicks.
4 - No one (i.e. no one outside those privy to the secret algorithm, and certainly no one here) has the first clue about the validity of these results.
5 - Enough about Cook already, especially if this nudge is a result of a massive corporate move to a totally different work environment (designed by Jobs!). We know he’s the antichrist, but sheesh!
6 - The haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate...
2 - The numbers are still pretty good. (4.3, versus an average of 3.3).
3 - Remember statistics: small changes cause large shifts on steep curves (see #1), but “plummets” is a pretty good way to lure clicks.
4 - No one (i.e. no one outside those privy to the secret algorithm, and certainly no one here) has the first clue about the validity of these results.
5 - Enough about Cook already, especially if this nudge is a result of a massive corporate move to a totally different work environment (designed by Jobs!). We know he’s the antichrist, but sheesh!
6 - The haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate...
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I wish I knew how they got these results. Is it just based on publicly available knowledge? Surely they aren’t getting hired by each company and then ranking them. With most companies being very secretive I find it hard to accurately rank how good they are without working for each company.
Please explain. I am genuinely curious how you can tie the happiness of Facebook's employees in their work environment to their business model. Heck, not even just Facebook use any company you'd like.
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Point 4, exactly what I’m thinking. Private info being leaked by employees?
Have you checked out Glassdoor web site?
https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm
Perhaps it tells us that getting a T-shirt and copy of the Apple Credo, just didn't cut it as a Christmas gift last year.
Why even ask? People that bring up “PC culture” are talking in code. They don’t like gay people or trans people and that’s all it’s about.
As a ex-retail employee this doesn't surprise me. From a retail perspective everyone really likes Tim but the changes being made by Angela at a store level aren't really giving that sense of accomplishment you once got.
I like Angela as a person and her communication is pretty top notch. But several things have been done:
- The retail credo changed from being employee centric to customer centric.
- New lead positions being introduced where the lines between a manager and lead blur.
- New positions being introduced which screwed over pay for existing positions (i.e.. Creative Pro and Creative vs Technical Expert and Genius). Genius was considered the same tier as Creative Pro but the Pro's were making more (20-30% more). And new technical experts were being offered what tenured geniuses got offered when they got promoted to genius. Which leads me to the next point.
- Pay discrepancy between employees who are tenured vs. those who just got hired (and make more).
- Changing training to self-paced module based instead of on-hands classroom environments (old genius training).
- A VERY noticeable shift in culture that is not distinctively Apple.
The job itself and the people were amazing. But the atmosphere that was there 3-4 years ago is not and people don't like it.
I like Angela as a person and her communication is pretty top notch. But several things have been done:
- The retail credo changed from being employee centric to customer centric.
- New lead positions being introduced where the lines between a manager and lead blur.
- New positions being introduced which screwed over pay for existing positions (i.e.. Creative Pro and Creative vs Technical Expert and Genius). Genius was considered the same tier as Creative Pro but the Pro's were making more (20-30% more). And new technical experts were being offered what tenured geniuses got offered when they got promoted to genius. Which leads me to the next point.
- Pay discrepancy between employees who are tenured vs. those who just got hired (and make more).
- Changing training to self-paced module based instead of on-hands classroom environments (old genius training).
- A VERY noticeable shift in culture that is not distinctively Apple.
The job itself and the people were amazing. But the atmosphere that was there 3-4 years ago is not and people don't like it.
Bloated Company
Complete Police State
Arrogance is their motto
Spend millions of PR dollars to convince the world they are an altruistic company
Bottom line ... Apple has created some amazing products, nobody can intelligently argue against that, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. Apple will eventually overdose as they all drink their own BS Kool-Aide.
Complete Police State
Arrogance is their motto
Spend millions of PR dollars to convince the world they are an altruistic company
Bottom line ... Apple has created some amazing products, nobody can intelligently argue against that, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. Apple will eventually overdose as they all drink their own BS Kool-Aide.
I vote against him every year. Sadly I don't own enough stock to make much of a difference.
Perhaps it says that Apple retail is tough place to work. Given the methodology and job positions are hidden we can endlessly debate this.Perhaps it tells us that getting a T-shirt and copy of the Apple Credo, just didn't cut it as a Christmas gift last year.
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Probably not.
I voted for him.
If you go on GlassDoor, you can read the reviews and know what the job positions are and see what the majority of people say.
Last time I looked a month or so ago, engineering position reviews seemed to be about half "I love it", and half "you will have no personal life"
