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Will Apple *ever* make "The Top 100 Places To Work" list?

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Apple for less than 1 year
June 18, 2008
Cupertino, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendApproves of CEO
Pros

It is still a big, name-brand company with a lot of international recognition.

Apple also continues to ride a huge amount of hype and, relatively speaking, recent business success.

The stock options also made many of us multi-millionaires over a short period of time.

A number of internal processes, the culture, and the people are also quite unique to Apple. From a diversity of experience point of view, that's great exposure for one's career.

Cons

There are an unusually high number of individuals at Apple (both management and individual contributors, at various levels) who would clearly NOT be successful at any other company or period of time. But that's not the problem.

The problem is that many of those individuals genuinely believe in their own talent, capabilities, and accomplishments and make ridiculous decisions based off these fundamental delusions.

Bozo cancer has also reached Stage III levels.

Advice to Management

Quit while you're ahead, or someone notices.

Cash out on top!

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