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Tim Cook Says Apple Hiring Very Deliberately Amid Economic Uncertainty
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Tim & the rest of the Apple team need to dispense with the "praying hands" gestures while presenting. It's no longer effective, if it ever was & just looks odd.😲
Poor guy? I suggest you check annual report on his compensation… he’s paid more than enough to make an effort to appear comfortable in these interviews
Times do change, rapidly too. Before Apple Park was built, Hewitt Packard had their headquarters at the same location. Before Hewitt Packard, that whole area of Cupertino were orchards. It is amazing to see how quickly this area of California changed within 50 years. Who knows, someday it may revert back to orchards.
Historic Aerials has these changes visually documented....
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Yes, this is his most non threatening mannerism he uses for public events.
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He his just 🙏 that you will spend the money to buy Apples products.
Sounds like business as usual at Apple. They always hired what they needed and have the money to get quality’s best
People have misinterpreted this as cutting back. APPLE never said that.
People have misinterpreted this as cutting back. APPLE never said that.
Apple has always been very careful with their spending and continues to be mindful of their expenses. That’s why we haven’t seen any mass layoffs from them yet.
What’s the issue with this again? Seems people are trying way too hard to spin this as Apple being greedy or stingy somehow.
What’s the issue with this again? Seems people are trying way too hard to spin this as Apple being greedy or stingy somehow.
How would taking a pay cut help out the economy? They get income taxed ... which ... helps the economy ... and they use their net income ... to make purchases ... which helps the ... ECONOMY.
This is what I thought too. Better to get fewer quality employees then more mediocre
That I spent thousands of dollars on products each year for years and contributed to making them the most valuable company ever, and that they're axing employees despite being highly profitable every single year.
WHAT economic uncertainty? The economy is the best it's ever been. There are NO problems in any city, no crime, no homeless, no unemployment. Everyone is above average ...
In an interview with CBS Mornings co-host Nate Burleson, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that his company is taking a careful approach to hiring amid a period of increased economic uncertainty. The full interview will air on Tuesday, but a preview is available now.
"So what we're doing as a consequence of being in this period is we're being very deliberate on our hiring," said Cook, when asked about Apple's hiring plans. "That means we're continuing to hire, but not everywhere in the company are we hiring." Cook added that Apple continues to believe strongly in investing for the long term.
Last month, Apple paused hiring for many non-R&D roles as a cost-cutting move, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The report said the move affects some "corporate functions" and "standard hardware and software engineering roles."
Cook also discussed Apple's return-to-office policy. As of September, corporate employees are required to work in the office three days a week.
"We make product, and you have to hold product," said Cook. "So that takes the serendipity of running into people, and bouncing ideas off, and caring enough to advance your idea through somebody else because you know that'll make it a bigger idea," he added.
CBS Mornings said the full interview will touch on the iPhone 14's new features and more.
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Hey Cook.
Why not start by STOPPING the bleeding of money to an exec whom
less than 1 yr got stock options and NOTHING was shown for it for over 2yrs,
where after 5yrs almost all we got to improve siri was voices, shortcuts (bought from a single hard working developer that created and sold the code/intellect to Apple0 and only slightly more 'realistic voices' was show for (yet nobody asked/needed for).
That'll allow at least 40 died-in-the-wool excellent hard working coders!
Yeah and people still leave piles of st and needles everywhere in SF. Amazon is laying off 10,000 people. I really wish he would stop praying.
Looks like a native plant/prairie type landscape. Does not need mowing/watering and also encourages natural pollinators such as bees and butterflies. The last thing California needs is more mowed lawns to water.
Yeah I guess you missed the humor. Not all of us take these articles with analytics and logic.
That’s good to see actually. Unemployed needs to increase. Tech especially should be trimming 10-20%.
Given how many problems in OSX persist through every release year in and year out without anyone to fix them, while devs are pulled from one OS to the next to meet release deadlines, it certainly seems like they could use some more people.
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A prairie restoration on an overcast day with a praying man listing oddly. …actually it’s not odd compared to how the director made pretty much everyone stand very awkwardly in the last several videos. Not sure what’s happening in California, or maybe standing in weird ways is the latest innovation in corporate culture.
Tim usually has good answers to pointed questions and he did a good job in this preview.
Reading between the lines. Deliberate and investing hires usually means more junior level, or fresh college grad devs kind of ordeal, they cost much less than experienced and there is always room for more.
Reading between the lines. Deliberate and investing hires usually means more junior level, or fresh college grad devs kind of ordeal, they cost much less than experienced and there is always room for more.
Possibly but it also depends how the communication is going and the task clarity along with the skill set of those involved. The amount of cross team communication seems to be a talking point in recent interviews so I’m assuming things are sluggish.
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Maybe the issue isn’t that there aren’t enough people working at Apple, but that they are not working in a manner that is conducive to Apple’s corporate structure. I am personally still of the opinion that Apple as a company is not designed with working from home / hybrid work in mind, and the sooner Apple can get all their employees back in the office, the better for their product quality.
In this context, hiring more people may not solve the issue if they remained scattered all across the globe.