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The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple
orenh writes "Recent data indicate that Apple engineers have significantly lower salaries than their Silicon Valley peers: $89,000 at Apple, versus $105,000 at Yahoo and $112,000 at Google. Paying lower salaries had a major impact on Apple's bottom line when it was struggling in the market up until 2004. But now that Apple is highly profitable, these lower salaries are no longer a factor in Apple's success. Will Apple have to raise salaries to match the market rate, or face defections?"
"Will Apple have to raise salaries to match the market rate, or face defections?"
Yes!
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!" -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
But the Lord Jobs gave them all free iPhones! That surely has to make up for having to work for the biggest asshole in California.
You're implying that Apple engineers are equally skilled as Google engineers!
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On the other hand, why are Yahoo engineers so overpaid...
So Vista people are paying to be crapped on? Wow. what a bunch of shitheads.
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YES! They probably are mostly zealots and fanboys otherwise they'd be working for M$. Pretty much anyone with an Apple becomes a zealboy so they have about 5% of the computing audience to hire from and most of them don't know they're being shafted, they're just working a dream job for the company that made the friendly overpriced computer they love.
Comparing Apple with Google is like comparing apples with oranges, or, like comparing Apple with Orange!
Considering they aren't the military, it's actually called 'quitting'.
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Considering it's Apple it's called "committing an act of heresy" or "being excommunicated".
No the engineers are paid just fine, it's just that Steve Jobs' $1 salary is dragging down the average...
I hope the benefits include remedial education.
Honestly, someone too inept to create a userID should not be casting the first stone as far as intelligence.
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Hehe, I got modded flamebait for pointing that out recently.
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I didn't hear you over the voices of about 20000 George Washingtons singing "Money makes the world go around".
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Apple engineers feature Fairplay DRM that prevents them from working for alternative employers.
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Hypercard was awesome. It was the only thing that made me like Mac more than my PC at the time. That and the cool Risk game we had on the Mac Pluses. I kicked ass at that, but that's not too hard... My foes never realized the significance of Australia and South America.
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She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I would higher a Apple Engineer...
Now you're just putting them on a pedestal!
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I think apple will have to face defecations.
A bit of Metamucil will clear that up.
"...If you're comparing, say, the guy who designs the box that the iPod comes in..."
The interior of my iPod box was completely dry.
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
He living on the wrong side of the mountains to observe you being arrested for getting to close to J, K and L pods.
I work at Apple to and I must disagree with the parent.
They keep me chained to a radiator making iPods in return for a bowl of rice a day. If I forget to check post anonymously the Apple police will hunt me down and kill me for Thinking Different.
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The military still have vets? How much horse cavalry is there?
(Seriously, over here a 'vet' is a vetinary surgeon. I did a bit of a double take when I was living in Houston and I saw a bumper sticker saying 'If you value your freedom, thank a vet' - and I thought, well, it's all very nice having someone to give my cat his annual FIV vaccination, but I didn't realise vetinary surgeons were the vanguard of freedom fighters too!).
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People love working at EA, but my friends there tell me they work 150+hrs/week...
oh shit wait, do people love working at EA?
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He could try swimming in the B reactor pools, but I think that might end up being a one-way trip. It'd be interesting for the morning paper though!