is happening now. If you were invited be careful not to be monitored by us. Dont use sick time for interview. We will watch you guys. Use your vacation or Send yr avatar (wives, friends or dogs) instead of you if you really want to go. You won't get good offers from such a college recruiting type event anyway.
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Hard to imagine Apple could be worse than Q at the moment.
that Apple cafeteria! so good.
I work at Apple. Was in QC before. There are tons of other ex-QC people here as well. Hopefully some of them will chime in, but in my opinion, its hands down a far better work environment than QC. Things that are better: company vibe, cafeteria (excellent isn't strong enough word), beer bashes, free snacks (well, depends on you department), discounts on Apple products, better computers (I have 2 side by side 27" monitors and a 15" MBP vs a total piece of shit HP with a 21" monitor that they wouldn't upgrade or something like that back at Q), much better software engineering practices than QC and most of the people are way more skilled in SW, amazing technology (wait until you see what's going on inside here), the upcoming spaceship office building, overall company prestige, up to 2x the 401k matching of QC, to name a few. There are crunch times here, but management is really smart and technically top notch. Some down sides though: start out with 12 days of vacation, many groups are in open office seating arrangements, very little technical training (its assumed that you do that for yourself), no library like QC. But overall, a far superior a place to work. It can be challenging, but overall much more rewarding than QC and if you can get a job at Apple, I would drop QC like a hot potato and move on with your life.
Apple is much worse. They have convinced most employees that they are doing something "special" and so work 12 hours a day like a pissing contest. It's a joke. The execs and stockholders and making so much cash off the chumps who work there. They don't pay that great of salary but give tons of stock so that you can't leave ("If I leave now I'll leave 200k of unvested stock!") while their base salary is less than what you'd make in SD/AUS/RAL. Their hardware teams also think they are actually "good", they don't have any competitions! AAPL aquires little companies who were almost out of business to churn out stuff like a dual core ARM that is "good enough" because ios is so solid.
Apple is much worse than Q. They work you to death. Apple should move to SD. Q has a lot of underpaid lady boys to work for Apple now.
127516 is real HR lady
Dear HR (OP), if you are what you claim to be, you are very stupid. why are you monitoring? don't you want people to leave on their own and save on severance package??
But better then noting?...Q party is over so Q is not an option to compare with.
Heard the same about Amazon
As we have seen, what you imagine from the outside can be very different from what you can as an insider.
10 times worse than Q. Seriously!
Apple is looking for lot of folks to support their growth projections! Typical big corp environment but laden with too much secrecy, god pay,stocks and bonuses.
Cannot be worse than Q
Friend of mine told me Apple is a sweatshop. Many people who joined packed up and leave within a few short months.