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100 Best Companies To Work For

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the LNUX-not-among-them dept.

Misha writes "Fortune.com is publishing a list of 100 Best Companies to Work for. Quite a few tech companies, with a few semi-startups, like Xilinx, who 'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6 percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'"

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  1. Microsoft is #20???? by EnlightenmentFan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Woo hoo. Dance, monkey-boy, dance.

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  2. 5. adobe systems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    5. Adobe Systems

    After graduating from college (3 years ago), I sent my resume as a PDF to Adobe. They wrote back and asked for it in Word format because they didn't know how to read PDF files....

    1. Re:5. adobe systems by DrCode · · Score: 4, Funny

      Good one.

      I once applied to a Linux company, sent them an ASCII resume, and was told the same thing.

      OTOH, Microsoft, I believe, asks for resume's in text format. Go figure.

  3. More or Less Useless by limekiller4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the current economic climate, this is sort of like having a "100 Best Girls to Have Sex With" list. Yeah, Alyssa Milano might very well be on it but she's not hiring, so who cares?

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  4. Forgot one... by JPhule · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couldn't get through to the site, but I'm pretty sure they forgot the best one: The Government.

  5. What about the 100 Worse? by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    In this tech depression, a list of the 100 Worse may be more useful. They may be more forgiving of the fact that a resume only lists 30 buzzwords instead of the expected 50. (That is assuming they know of their ranking.)

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  6. #51 Harley Davidson by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 4, Funny
    A friend of mine got a job there doing a little programming (over me :( ) and the first thing they did was take his order for his new bike (no it wasn't a V-Rod).

    He was given a tour of the factory two weeks after he started, and picked it up while he was there.

    I hear it the benefits really suck too :)

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  7. Have I been misinformed... by EverDense · · Score: 5, Funny

    or are "American Cast Iron Pipe" debt collectors?

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  8. Re:Hewlett Packard? by Tattva · · Score: 5, Funny
    Perhaps they know of the curse of the DEC. Now that HP has absorbed Compaq they have also taken on the mantle of the owner of Digital Equipment's corpse, whose wretched santeria can fell the mightiest of companies.

    Okay, just kidding. Anyway, as a former HP employee and current Agilent employee ... I think I'll just keep my mouth shut.

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