They made 20 billion in profit last year. They could DOUBLE the salaries of every important engineer without breaking a sweat. They are running by MBAs so they will do the bare minimum.
I've been working at Apple for the last 17 years. At my last perf-review (which went very well), my boss was talking about promotion and where I wanted to go in my career: ICT6 (really hard to get, ICT5->ICT6 is based more on opportunity becoming available rather than ability IMHO) or Management. ICT6 comes with a $200k or so pay rise, a significant fraction of my comp, so it's a big jump.
My answer was simple enough: I plan to retire within the next 5 years (I'm 52 now); I'll go whichever path will make the most money before I retire. I'm willing to put up with a non-ideal work environment for a while in order to reap more financial rewards that might let me retire even earlier.
(I have an excellent working relationship with my boss, who is an adult and acts like one; we can talk openly and honestly about these things)
I make a lot of money at Apple, and I like working here, but it's still work and I work to live, not the other way around. I want to be able to enjoy the fruits of my labour while I'm still young enough to appreciate it, so my drive is simply money. It's evolved over time, and certainly when younger, "cool project" was more of a drive, but now that I'm approaching end-game ... things change.
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They made 20 billion in profit last year. They could DOUBLE the salaries of every important engineer without breaking a sweat. They are running by MBAs so they will do the bare minimum.
And how would that change anything? More money not gonna solve it.
If someone thinks it’s a terrible place to work at, more money won’t make it “unterrible”.
shrug depends.
I've been working at Apple for the last 17 years. At my last perf-review (which went very well), my boss was talking about promotion and where I wanted to go in my career: ICT6 (really hard to get, ICT5->ICT6 is based more on opportunity becoming available rather than ability IMHO) or Management. ICT6 comes with a $200k or so pay rise, a significant fraction of my comp, so it's a big jump.
My answer was simple enough: I plan to retire within the next 5 years (I'm 52 now); I'll go whichever path will make the most money before I retire. I'm willing to put up with a non-ideal work environment for a while in order to reap more financial rewards that might let me retire even earlier.
(I have an excellent working relationship with my boss, who is an adult and acts like one; we can talk openly and honestly about these things)
I make a lot of money at Apple, and I like working here, but it's still work and I work to live, not the other way around. I want to be able to enjoy the fruits of my labour while I'm still young enough to appreciate it, so my drive is simply money. It's evolved over time, and certainly when younger, "cool project" was more of a drive, but now that I'm approaching end-game ... things change.
It might help prevent top physicists and EE students from taking stupid finance and Facebook jobs.