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- Arrogant Apple Workers I have met some people who works at Apple. They were so arrogant and look broken. What’s going on there?
- link Apple first to bring workers in? How much truth to this? Seems as expected.... https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-return-to-work-plan-vs-google-microsoft-silicon-valley-2020-5 #wfh #covid-19 #apple
- Does Apple hire remote workers? Hi - I don't live in Northern California (Southern California actually) and was curious if Apple hires remote workers and doesn't require relocation? I'm assuming yes based on the role, any insight would be appreciated
- link Apple delays return-to-office date indefinitely, gives workers $1,000 ‘work-from-home’ bonus Reference: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-delays-return-to-office-indefinitely-gives-workers-1-000-work-from-home-bonus-11639672932 #engineering #apple #software #swe
- Will / when Apple begin to support service workers? Title pretty much sums it up. This would be used primarily for PWAs on the iPhone.
- Apple Audiobooks workers, we just hired one of your Data Scientists. He seems young, was he a manager at Apple? He works in my department as a Manager, wanted to see if he has prior management experience in case he ever ends up being my boss
- link US firms like Apple, Google use H-1B visa to pay low wages to migrant workers https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/us-employers-use-h1b-visa-to-pay-low-wages-to-migrants-1674861-2020-05-06 The report titled "H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels" says 60 per cent of H-1B positions certified by the US Department of Labor (DOL) are assigned wage levels well below the local
- link Apple return to office (back to shitty SF, guys) https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/03/04/apple-workers-set-to-return-to-office-beginning-april-11.html
- vote 🔥 FAANG+ Tech Union 🔥 Should FAANG+ tech workers should start a union. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-workers.html?referringSource=articleShare #amazon #google #meta #netflix #apple #tech
- vote Stop saying FAANG FAANG is an acronym for high performing tech stocks. its cnbc lingo for actual tech worker talent, comp and perks this grouping is absolutely meaningless. For example, EVERY tech worker at Amazon would leave for goog or fb before you can say amz. every sw appl worker would probably do the same. #
- Layoffs due to COVID19 Should people start to prepare for the worst as the corona virus rips through the US and other nations causing joblessness and eventually a recession resulting in tech workers being laid off? What is the chance of FAANGs and unicorn startups laying off people at this time? Thoughts? TC 195k 2.5 YO
- Next iPhone Is it going to be as good as the leaks suggest? Especially curious to hear from Apple workers...
- vote Did the hiring bubble just burst? Feels like this has been coming for a year now. Great Reshuffle, rapidly increasing TC's, high stock growths. Now, hiring slowdowns/freezes, stock crashing. Layoffs seem inevitable by years end. Did us tech workers single handedly build and burst our own bubble? TC 150 YOE 8 #tech #swe #hiring #me
- vote Do you think tech workers should unionize? Do you think tech workers need to unionize? Why or why not? #FAANG #Amazon #Apple #Google #Facebook #Netflix #Microsoft #Tech #Labor #Tesla #NVIDIA #Oracle
- #AppleToo what is it and will there be more? https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/she-pulled-herself-from-addiction-by-learning-to-code-now-this-kirkland-software-developer-is-leading-a-worker-uprising-at-apple/
- Apple - open to remote? Is Apple more open to hiring remote workers for roles listed in Cupertino? Or are they still requiring people to be onsite?
- link WFH entitlement from Tech is embarrassing (Apple) https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22491629/apple-employees-push-back-return-office-internal-letter-tim-cook The “give me my full remote or I quit” stance is unbelievably cringe and ripe with entitlement. Not only are tech jobs compensated at the top 1% of the world, but now tech employees also dema
- Amazon VS Apple Literally just converted over from contract worker to blue badge at Amazon (L5 tech recruiter), and received an interview request for a recruiter position at Apple (retail leadership sourcer). Sounds like a downgrade on paper, but the difference in culture could mean something to me. Should I take t
- How do you get LinkedIn recommendations from co-workers? How shall I ask my co-workers for LinkedIn recommendation? Specific messaging? Specific contacts? Any good recipes? #tech #linkedin #faang #facebook #apple #amazon #netflix #google
- vote Which of FB/G/AMZN/APPL/MS is ethically the best? These are the main things I can think of: FB -> sketchy data, social media G -> sketchy data AMZN -> poor treatment of employees APPL -> suicidal factory workers MS -> sketchy past business practices
- Current Macro-economics in a nutshell def main(): fed_reserve() FAANG() workers() fed_reserve(): If Inflation < 0.02: Do nothing elif Inflation < 0.04: print('It's transitory') elif inflation < 0.06: print('we're not even thinking about thinking to raise rates') sell(Treasury)
- link Apple has donated 20 million masks, is working to make 1 million face shields a week Amid a shortage of protective equipment for health-care workers treating coronavirus patients, Apple Inc. has donated more than 20 million face masks worldwide and has started manufacturing 1 million face shields a week, Chief Executive Tim Cook said Sunday. Cook said Apple has launched a company-w
- vote Google is the most prestigious FAANG When you tell people you work at... Amazon: Assume you're a warehouse worker Apple: Assume you work at a retail store Netflix: Film crew assistant Facebook: Depending on the political ideology of who you're speaking with, you're either a genius or a Satan worshiper Google: You are some sort of ext
- Apple remote jobs? I never see any HW job postings at Apple located in Seattle. - Do they do HW in Seattle at all? - What is their stance on remote workers after COVID?
- link Apple Christmas Eve employee walkout? Are things that bad? https://www.ktvu.com/news/apple-workers-group-plans-walkout-urges-customer-boycott-for-christmas-eve Is life really so bad at A? I would guess retail (Store) sucks especially with COVID, but it sounds like corporate is participating too? TC 150k YOE 4
- If you need the best worker ever, only referral needed (Google welcome) Ok, guys.I work at Apple right now, but dream about another company. If you can give me a refferral to QA team, welcome please 😊 And maybe tommorow I will be your friendly co-worker
- vote Amazon employees calling AWS to drop parler Amazon worker group (or whatever they call themselves) asking AWS to cut ties with parler Do you think bezos will follow google, apple and remove Parler? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/amazon-worker-group-calls-for-cloud-unit-to-drop-parler?utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow
- Employee attrition rate I know Linkedin recruiter account provides attrition rate of different companies. I am interested to know if there is any open data for attrition rate of corporate employees in tech companies. Ex: For Amazon, I don't want to see attrition of warehouse workers but only corporate workers. Edit1: TC:
- link Starbucks to pay employees more after tax cuts Apple got there. Any hope for Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, others to share % with employees? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/01/24/starbucks-boosts-worker-pay-gives-bonuses-after-trump-tax-cut/1060883001/
- link Will Tim Cook and Sundar come out against Israel? https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/20/22446059/apple-employees-palestinians-support-internal-letter-tim-cook “Apple employees are circulating an internal letter calling on Tim Cook to put out a statement supporting the Palestinian people. Nearly 1,000 workers have signed.” “The news comes two days af
- vote Left Apple to join Tesla in June 2018 A co-worker left Apple to join Tesla in June 2018. He got sign-on package with RSUs of 400k. He has 4 years of experience and on H1b. He just bought 2.5Million house on cash in Mountain View. Do you think it’s worth to stay at FAANG, or find next Tesla?
- Severence the TV show, what current company would do it? In the TV show Severence, released to Apple TV, Luman inc surgically separates work memories from personal causing all sorts of ethical violations. Which current company do you think would do it today, if they can get away with it? Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple (ah.. the secrecy surrounding new pro
- vote Apple and Qualcomm employees. What will you do? Apple and Qualcomm announced return to office. What we you do? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-giant-qualcomm-will-have-a-flexible-return-to-office-policy-for-workers-183304424.html Qualcomm's incoming CEO Cristiano Amon shares his thoughts on the return to office plans for the tech giant.
- Do tech companies employee shoot movie? We know that Netflix, Apple and Amazon have their own movie production. I wonder whether they actually hire full time worker to make it or they sign contract with outisde studio to make it? Do their have a VP just responsible for movie production?
- vote Which tech companies has great appreciation gifts Basically tech companies that award their workers with appreciation points (not money) they can spend by looking at a list of items they can purchase from the companies catalog For example: Appliances - TV / Oven / refrigerator Technology - Apple products, Tablet, Laptop, gaming consoles Clothing
- Why do people say Amazon is worse than Apple? I’m relatively new to Blind, but as far as I know, doesn’t Apple pay a lot less for new grad compared to Amazon (150k in cupertino vs 130k in seattle, not including sign on)? After taxes plus an additional 12k/year in cupertino housing, doesn’t the amazon worker take home a lot more?
- link Ex-Google and Facebook employee says silicon valley’s use of H1B visa is “institutional slavery” In addition, experienced highly skilled domestic workers are being hired less and less, as the more expensive option compared to the H1B workforce. And a Computerworld report from 2017 said that Apple was able to pay H1B visa holders as low as just over $50,000 a year – in an industry where the aver
- link Apple and Google collusion was evil I keep on seeing Engineers calling Apple and Google as saint and throwing mud on Meta. Most of them don't know or don't remember that Google and Apple has kept the tech salary deflated for almost a decade by a nasty pact. They created a collusion between - Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar,
- Microsoft, your crap research will set the future of work back years ICYMI, Microsoft recently published a study in Nature claiming to show that "firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts." Lots of coverage on Twitter, etc. Link to study: https://www.nature.com/arti
- link Internal strife at Apple on iPhone spyware “Apple employees have flooded an Apple internal Slack channel with more than 800 messages on the plan announced a week ago, workers who asked not to be identified told Reuters. Many expressed worries that the feature could be exploited by repressive governments looking to find other material for cen
- link RTO and South Bay real estate impact https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/04/apple-april-11-return-to-office-deadline/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/ More companies will follow including Adobe to get everyone to RTO What is going to happen to South Bay re
- What are some good SW teams/products at Apple? Thinking of Apple as mid/long term. Since work and culture within teams/products vary within a big company it would nice to know which of them standout. Good teams as in positive and hard working co-workers. Good product as in having a high ceiling for learning and a decent product roadmap. Looki
- What do you really do? I'm a refinery worker without a college degree that worked hard enough to climb the ladder into a management roll. I manage direct reports and give guidance on business strategy year to year. I'm curious what the apple/airbnb/netflix/quora/tech employees do? Your TC is most higher than what I typic
- Best way wish goodbye to your employer? Recently got a fang offer and will be sharing the news with my manager. Would love some thoughts/tips on: - How do you break the news with your manager? How honest are you/what reasons do you share on why you quit? - Do you take PTO before sharing the news? - How do you maintain a good relation
- Opportunities in Vancouver, B.C? I'm Canadian- thinking of moving to Vancouver and wondering if anyone has insights on good opportunities up there? More preferably for PM but I have a software background so I could make that work too. Microsoft, Twitter, FB, Apple have offices there but I'm told they are mostly holding pens for
- Does O1 visa extension requires stamping at a US embassy abroad? NOTE: If you don’t know about O1 please ignore this post. If you want to about O1, don’t ask, read this https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-workers/o-1-visa-individuals-with-extraordinary-ability-or-achievement. I’m getting my O1 extended and the application wiz with the US
- WFH for hw engineers Are hardware companies allowing wfh for the duration of pandemic or till the year end for people who can do there jobs from home? I understand people who needs to go to office for labwork. That is fine with me. But if you can do all your assigned work from home then i think there is no need to expo
- link COVID paid sick leaves Looks like companies are starting to cut COVID paid sick leaves amidst the surge ‘as per CDC guidelines’. While most folks are recovering quickly, I feel companies (especially big tech) should lead in terms of providing benefits like sick leaves. How many paid sick days does your company offer (es
- Pledge against Slave Labor: Google, FB, AMZ & Apple (hypocrites) Technically, they do take care of employees but continues to hire third party companies to do the slave labors for them. In the end, they dont care at what these vendors/third party do, as long as it gets the job done. People working for third party companies begins to become just numbers for them,
- link Apple treats its IT contractors so badly ? https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-apple-contract-workers-20190212-story.html Apple does provide thousands of jobs around the world, but working conditions for contract employees right in Silicon Valley are borderline abusive. There may be a duty to deliver profits to share holders, but Appl