I interviewed recently at Apple, honestly was not impressed with much. The hiring manager came off a bit unprofessional and inexperienced. They're all about coming into work the old school way, no remote flexibility due to their culture of secrecy. Who knows what it would be like on the 'inside'. I think that will be their downfall, in the Bay Area and many other places, no one wants to commute if they can help it. Many many other great companies to work for, with better perks.
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Apple Plummets to Lowest Ranking Ever in Glassdoor's Annual List of Best Places to Work
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Dunno about other Silicon Valley companies, but my friend works as a corporate lawyer for Google and all their meals are free.
I haven’t read how these statistics are fully compiled, but I’d have to think that you identified a huge kernel of truth here. Though I disagreed with Jobs on much of his social outlook on life, and though I know he could be difficult to work with/for, one of the things I admired most about his approach to leading Apple was his focus on making great stuff. Period. He didn’t feel like it was always his place to drag a company that represented people from all walks of life through his own personal political agenda.
For Cook, if you don’t subscribe to his particular philosophy regarding gender politics, or illegal immigration, etc., how WOULD you enjoy the atmosphere? By listening to the CEO, there’s only room for one outlook on American life at the company.
One would suppose accuracy estimates could be statistically adjusted if sufficient data was collected from the respondents, adjusting statistically for false inputs and information. This is how proper polling data is analyzed in various arenas, political polling being the most common. Bad information might be worse than none, but a preponderance of good information trumps outlying faulty data.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a thread with so much complaining about a company trying to hire people that aren’t white males.
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Yes. If it’s mostly true, it’s better than nothing. But this poll says people would rather work at a fast food company and a company that has fired over 30k people in the past three years than Apple.
I question it.
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Yes. If it’s mostly true, it’s better than nothing. But this poll says people would rather work at a fast food company and a company that has fired over 30k people in the past three years than Apple.
I question it.
Whilst my direct experience is not the same as yours, I can recognise what you say. I have visited Intel facilities around the world and incidentally Facebook facilities in Sweden and in all occasions I have really impressed with the culture of these organisations and whilst I can never totally put my finger on what is exactly making everything tick, I am always left with the impression that folks really enjoyed their work / workplace, overwhelmingly in the Facebook facility - the place was absolutely “buzzing”
The second stringers are looking at the end of white privilege and wondering how they will get by based on skills alone.
They are terrified that their lack of skills will cost them their jobs.
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"
Isn't the "you will have no personal life" a given for any technical or engineering position across the tech industry?
So, yet another Apple Retail employee chimes in with an opinion about what it's really like to work at Apple. As someone who worked in Cupertino doing Cupertino stuff, I assure you that the Apple you work for, and the Apple I worked for, are not the same company, culturally. It would behoove you to step off your soapbox, as it really isn't as elevated a position as you seem to believe it is.
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That is true of all companies. From what I have seen, "PC" means that everyone is treated like white males are treated.
As one middle aged white male to another - get over it. The days of white privilege are over.
When companies become cash cows and stop doing innovative things the real talent leaves and is replaced with marginal talent. It has nothing to do with salary...
Excuse me, are retail employees working for a different company? The title says working for apple, and as far as I'm concerned, when you work at an apple store you ARE working for apple.
I interpreted this list to represent Apple Corporate as opposed to Apple Retail. They're entirely different sets of jobs.
Of course! The only time any ranking system, analyst or other entity is right is when they are ranking some positive aspect of something and puts Apple #1. If Apple is not #1, the entity doing the placement is entirely wrong, taking payola, suspect and so on.
We'll even readily flip flop faulting an entity when Apple is not #1 and praising them and/or offering them up as examples in other threads when the same ranks Apple #1. Consumer Reports is one that is particularly standout if anyone knows how they work. They are so right when they are praising Apple and so wrong/suspect/"need to alter their methodology" (more favorable to Apple) when they are panning something from Apple... or even not ranking that something #1 with mostly praise.
We are consistent about this in all threads. Is it a rule?
It’s in the fine print.
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With patents are only valid when they work FOR Apple. Else the patent system is broken and needs reform?
And "99% don't want/need" when whatever the subject is not available from Apple? But when Apple does get around to adding it, then apparently everybody must have it?
And rationalizing such collective flip flops by "Apple isn't first but they wait to get it right"?
etc?
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I take Consumer Reports seriously. There one of the few left that adhere to objective standards, not even taking advertising revenue to do their thing. When I want to buy something they rate, they are one of the first things I check to find a good one.
I'm sure Glassdoor has done a lot of self validation of their methods. It might be a pretty algorithm, but it's inherently hard to draw any conclusions with any confidence for such a broad question. Glassdoor says my company sucks and I think it's great.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Again, their agreement with Hon Hai doesn't mean they are a low morals company. It's business. Hon Hai exists for the very job Apple hires them to perform. And Apple doesn't determine the cost of labor at Hon Hai or in China.
Furthermore, the kind of skills and number of people Apple needs to do the job required DOES NOT EXIST outside of Asia. Period.
So for the people wanting Americans to assemble iPhones....not going to happen and it's not only because it would cost too much. We simply can't do it here.
I've used it to evaluate my potential employer(s) before and I must say they are fairly reliable. I just wish that I had paid more attention to it when I joined my current employer.
It’s retail, any idiot off the street can work that job. It’s a nice gesture to be given nice gifts or bonuses for holidays, but it shouldn’t be expected in those positions.
Of course you think it's good if you check Consumer Reports to find something.With patents are only valid when they work FOR Apple. Else the patent system is broken and needs reform?
And "99% don't want/need" when whatever the subject is not available from Apple? But when Apple does get around to adding it, then apparently everybody must have it?
And rationalizing such collective flip flops by "Apple isn't first but they wait to get it right"?
etc?
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I take Consumer Reports seriously. There one of the few left that adhere to objective standards, not even taking advertising revenue to do their thing. When I want to buy something they rate, they are one of the first things I check to find a good one.