that’s it? i know it says over 5k, but if you had 12k SWEs would you say over 5k? probably would say over 10k. so i suspect they have 5-6k software engineers. which seem really low for apple with 137k employees worldwide orginal tweet: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1197316106236481539
How is that considered low? Are you expecting more than half of the total population of Apple employees to be SWEs? Through and through, Apple is a hardware company. There’s also many facets to run this business outside of SWE. Not only that, Apple has a huge retail sector for a tech company, which are also considered full-fledged Apple employees.
Well we have a lot of contractors tho! I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of FTE software engineers is relatively low.
🤔Do contractors get stock? OIC
Apple is a company that punches way above its weight. You won’t believe how lean we run. Anyway, as others have pointed out, we have super few SWEs in the company. Vast majority of the workforce is in retail and ops.
No, it’s saying Apple’s “product and test software” is developed in the US. It’s not saying that Apple produces and tests software that is developed in the US.