did their employees all get a pay raise? are the manufacturing workers adequatel...

billmcneale · on July 20, 2011

Apple hasn't been in the top 100 companies to work for in the past five years (probably goes back further), so... no.

Several friends of mine confirm this: they're not treated very well nor recognized, they work 70 hours a week, but they love it.

Obviously, it's not for everyone, you need to love the company to work there.

czhiddy · on July 20, 2011

From what I've read, Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys, so saying they've never made the top 100 is a useless statement at best.

glassdoor.com satisfaction surveys place them somewhere between Intel and Google, but a lot of the reviews come from retail employees. I'd be curious to see what the average score is for corporate employees.

danssig · on July 20, 2011

>Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys

Which is sensible IMO. I worked at Walmart in IT at the time that they scored quite highly on one of those things. I couldn't name a single person who loved or even liked their job. Everyone I knew was there because they didn't feel they had a choice. I've never looked at one those surveys since then.

billmcneale · on July 23, 2011

> From what I've read, Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys

Ask yourself why.

Tyrannosaurs · on July 20, 2011

I think it's a good example of technologists wanting to be involved in great projects and products that end up getting used and making a difference.

I doubt anyone there is badly paid but that's not the reason they work there - they do so because they know that most other places would struggle to give them work they could be as proud of.

_csoo · on July 20, 2011

Yeah, that's called Stockholm Syndrome... ;p