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.
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.
Quit while you're ahead, or someone notices.
Cash out on top!
An engineer contacted me based on my technical blog. I had a phone interview, then was flown out for a full interview. It was a pretty intense interview (I've been through an MS interview, too). There were lots of people, and the interview was very
I was contacted by a recruiter and then had a phone screen with the manager. A few days later, the recruiter told me the manager was showing interest, so they scheduled an on-site interview. The on-site consisted of one-on-one interviews with eight p
I was contacted by a recruiter who discussed the requirements of the team. The project was top secret, so they could not disclose what I would be working on. I had two rounds of phone interviews which involved discussions on concepts in machine lear
An engineer contacted me based on my technical blog. I had a phone interview, then was flown out for a full interview. It was a pretty intense interview (I've been through an MS interview, too). There were lots of people, and the interview was very
I was contacted by a recruiter and then had a phone screen with the manager. A few days later, the recruiter told me the manager was showing interest, so they scheduled an on-site interview. The on-site consisted of one-on-one interviews with eight p
I was contacted by a recruiter who discussed the requirements of the team. The project was top secret, so they could not disclose what I would be working on. I had two rounds of phone interviews which involved discussions on concepts in machine lear