AppleInsider Staff
In job listing website Glassdoor.com's annual "Best Places to Work 2014" list, reviews from Apple employees put the Cupertino company at No. 35, down one spot from last year's finish.
After breaking into the top-ten on Glassdoor's list in 2011, employee reviews now have company in 35th place despite dropping only 0.1 points on a five-point "Satisfaction" rating scale. For this year's list, Apple received a score of 3.8 out of 5.
Glassdoor ranks the top 50 U.S. companies to work for based on responses from over 500,000 company reviews that came in over the past 12 months. Apple's score is the result of an average taken from 2,557 ratings. As for the company's leadership, CEO Tim Cook received an approval rating of 92 percent on 1,152 ratings.
The "Review Highlights" section, which generates snippets from extrapolated recurring keywords found in individual reviews, notes two "Pros" and two "Cons" of working at Apple:
Pros:
- "The pros are that you work with great people with great hours and great benefits"
- "You get to meet a lot of great people since you are always in the public eye"
Cons:
- "Being relentlessly driven also means it is not easy to achieve work/life balance"
- "Sometimes long hours because of product launches, but thats the best part of apple"
While Apple is flirting with the bottom fourth of the list, it is still the 16th-best tech company to work for in the nation. This year, technology firms accounted for 22 of the top 50, with giants Twitter and Facebook mixed in with smaller, less well-known companies like Slalom Consulting, an IT business services operation out of Seattle, Wash.
Overall, consulting firm Bain & Company took the top spot, followed by Twitter and LinkedIn, each of which received a score of 4.6. Facebook was the next tech company on the list at No. 5, while enterprise telecom services firm Interactive Intelligence came away with 6th place. Google and Qualcomm followed in 8th and 13th place, respectively.
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32 Comments
Weird way of scoring companies. Most of the businesses on the list seem more like "corporate" jobs that score high while some of the companies rate a combined "corporate" and retail. Obviously retail will cause scores to falter as there are always unhappy retail workers. I think it would have made sense to put them in two separate categories.
So it's a yelp rating created by volunteer surveys of employees and not any kind of actual factual information in a statistically sound protocol.
Cons:
Hmmmm... Some one seems very confused... lol...
[quote name="j4zb4" url="/t/161128/apple-falls-to-35th-spot-in-annual-best-places-to-work-employee-survey#post_2445201"][QUOTE name="AppleInsider" url="/t/161128/apple-falls-to-35th-spot-in-annual-best-places-to-work-employee-survey#post_2445169"] [B]Cons:[/B] [LIST] [*] "Sometimes long hours because of product launches, [B]but thats the best part of apple[/B]" [/LIST] [/QUOTE] Hmmmm... Some one seems very confused... lol... [/quote] Apple has "problems" (too much cash, can't keep up with overwhelming demand, [B][I]slavishly devoted employees and customers[/I][/B]) that Skamstung, Google and Microsoft would kill for...
Tim said at AllThingsD on 5/29/2012 (D10): [quote]We decided over a decade ago that there were things we could do better than anyone else; but there are others who do things as well or better. Operational expertise, and supply chain management, Apple has driven that. But manufacturing, that’s not true. In terms of how the factories are doing, this year, we put a ton of effort into taking overtime down. That’s hard because some people want to work a lot. We are already up to 95% compliance. We are measuring working hours for 700,000 people, and we’re reporting it, you can see it on our website. We are micro-managing that, doing it in a way, showing a level of care, that I don’t see in other places. I think it is really important.[/quote] So perhaps the employees of many outsourced work were also reviewing?