Apple and Tim Cook Fare Well in Survey of Best Places to Work

So Tim Cook is a "place to work"?

Wait, BAIN is the best place to work? Is this blizzaro world? Bain drives people to the brink of madness. Something is terribly wrong with this survey.

I had an interview once with a company that was ranked #23 of the best places to work in Germany. Well, if that was #23, then every other place where I've ever worked was at least on rank #22.

To make it simple, those rankings are bollocks.

Is that rating for Apple Corporate, retail, or both?

Google is undeniably one of the best places to work in.

Having worked with Google for a couple of years in AI cars (for simpletons), I can easily say that Google really wants you to live in the office 24 hours. That is the philosophy of the entire silicon valley but Google has set its own bar, really high. I don't necessarily say its the right way to do(PS3/Xbox/Sofa/beds, etc) but nonetheless they've made their own impression on graduates esp.

On another, Apple is highly disciplined but I was really satisfied with my one day visit at the Cupertino campus. The building is quite old but its pure excellence. Apple is also very relaxed for any one who doesn't know but they sure don't cater Xbox/PS3 nerds and don't have beds for people to stay over. I am planning to apply to Apple soon. Really psyched to see the new campus plan in 2015. It's a dream come true for many.

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So Tim Cook is a "place to work"?

CEO Rating

Is that rating for Apple Corporate, retail, or both?

Actually, if you look at the ratings in the post -- upon which the ranking is based -- you will find a lot of comments from Apple retail employees from throughout the country. Contrast that with the other two tech companies in the top 10 -- Google and Facebook -- where the comments are almost exclusively from the "home office."

Also, Apple's ranking is based on 210 separate ratings -- twice as many as Google (98) and nearly 8 times as many as Facebook (28) -- again reflecting its large retail presence.

That's what I was gonna say. HAAAAAaaa.

LOL, I thought the article header said that Tim Cook says "Farewell" to Apple. Was getting slightly worried for a brief moment.

how about using a comma?

Apple and Tim Cook, Fare Well in Survey of Best Places to Work

Apple Head Office may be an awesome place to work.....

...but apple retail is terrible form my own personal experience.

Have just left after working for a year. They employ the best of the best which they like to remind you every day. The company philosophy is that “At Apple, our most important resource, our soul, is our people." .... this is just propaganda which is planted into the heads of everyone there. With constant videos from The Mothership detailing how well the company is doing to egg you on to keep you in this made up bubble. They expect the best of you with no pressure selling policies but managers hold lots of pressure on Staff to SELL SELL SELL MAC's APPLE CARE AND ONETOONE TRAINING. If you don't sell 60% apple care and 40% onetoone then there's something wrong. I personally beat the targets set to me with false promises of promotion..... but no reward and I MEAN NOTHING in return! They also remind you that you could have it worse working in other retail stores but 90% plus of the staff I worked with had degrees and qualifications that make them much much better that just retail employees.... Alas I couldn't take the BS anymore so I left....

A degree is pretty meaningless nowadays. It doesn't make one overqualified for retail one bit.

That's very interesting. I don't understand the 24 hours thing, that's just ridiculous, who would want a job like that? Where I work, they are huge on personal time and making sure people are able to be home with their families as much as possible, since that's a really big deal to everyone. When I hear about huge long days every day and people just living at work, it's such a ridiculous turn off and I don't see how anyone can have a normal life and participate in that sort of thing.

There are a lot of places where hours can be absolutely insane at times, so if that is the accepted situation, it's a positive thing that they'd at least attempt to create a pleasant environment.

For the future of Apple, it is worrying that Tim Cook has scored as highly. I imagine that Jobs was a bit of a nightmare to work for in comparison but the company has done not too badly. Will the company lose its drive and ambition with a "nice guy" at the helm?

You don't need an evil dictator boss to have a good working environment. Really this could turn into a good thing for the company overall. There are a ton of things that could drive a company downhill, but I don't actually think that having a less vindictive CEO is one of them.

At first that was my thought too. Who want to live at work. But if you took me fresh from getting my BSEE and I could work at Apple 80 hours a week AND get paid hell yeah I'd take it.

That schedule may not be entirely realistic of what employees put in year round. There are peak times for any business so a lot of these anecdotal numbers tend to reflect the busiest times.

I've never even heard of some of those companies on that list :confused:

And Microsoft didn't even make it into the top 50? I kinda find that hard to believe :confused:

When I read comments about how companies like Bain drive people into madness (which sounds *very* plausible in the current corporate world), I really question the reliability and accuracy of these types of "surveys".

Now you've made me wonder about their method of data collection and analysis. It's impossible to put together a perfectly linear scale from such a large matrix of data anyway, so there's a chance of some kind of bias.