Apple To Add 3600 Jobs At New $304 Million Campus In Austin

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Apple To Add 3600 Jobs At New $304 Million Campus In Austin

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 10, 2012 @07:58AM from the city-motto-is-less-humid-than-houston dept.

An anonymous reader links to a short note at Tech Newest, according to which "Apple Inc. plans to create a $304 million campus in Austin, Texas, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its labourforce in the city. The Cupertino, California, customer device [maker] already employs thousands in Austin, whose tasks include handling customer issues and support."

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There's gonna be a rumble! by PessimysticRaven · 2012-03-10 08:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Awesome. I for one can't wait to hear about the turf war between Dell's Round Rock campus and this new Apple Dumpling gang.

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1. Re:There's gonna be a rumble! by poly_pusher · 2012-03-10 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  When you're a dell, you're a dell all the way. From your first hard drive fail to your last RMA!
  
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2. Re:There's gonna be a rumble! by ehintz · 2012-03-10 09:42 · Score: 2
  
  That's been going on for years. I worked at Apple Austin from '96 to '98; back then there was a LaserWriter on the 2nd floor of the Anderson campus that was ironically named "Dell Resume Writer". Srsly.
  It was kind of a crappy thing for the phone monkeys tho. They'd get stuck in a rut, 9mos as a contractor at Apple, 9mos at Dell. Never get a full time gig with benes, just end up being a temp worker forever.
  
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In Related News, Apple Buys UT Austin Dorms by theodp · 2012-03-10 08:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Hey, workers need a place to live, right?
Slashdot outsourcing summary to India? by Spy+Handler · 2012-03-10 08:10 · Score: 2

this one sounded just like my last tech support call...
1. Re:Slashdot outsourcing summary to India? by White+Flame · 2012-03-10 08:41 · Score: 2
  
  The India customer device huge already employs thousands tech support.
3600 Jobs... by Culture20 · 2012-03-10 08:22 · Score: 4, Funny

But human cloning is illegal in the USA.
Info about the Apple Austin campus by Necroman · 2012-03-10 08:25 · Score: 4, Informative

Apple is based in North Austin (see satellite map of the campus). It's currently 4 buildings and they have room to add more building right in that area. They currently employ around 3500 people in their Austin corporate office (at least from the press releases I saw). If you poke around Apple's jobs website you'll find around 64 open positions in the Austin office, mainly around support and sales. Their only engineering type roles have to do working with their suppliers in Austin (Samsung, Intel, AMD, FreeScale, and IBM all have offices down here).
I'm little sad they have no real engineering/development in Austin, but they seem to like keeping all of their people working on the same product in the same offices. Spreading an engineering force globally can cause communication issues, so they seem to avoid it.

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1. Re:Info about the Apple Austin campus by Pulzar · 2012-03-10 09:07 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  I'm little sad they have no real engineering/development in Austin, but they seem to like keeping all of their people working on the same product in the same offices. Spreading an engineering force globally can cause communication issues, so they seem to avoid it.
  You don't seem to be searching right... The team working on ARM-based ASICs going into iPads and iPhones is in Austin. Here's an example posting.
  
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2. Re:Info about the Apple Austin campus by fermion · 2012-03-10 16:19 · Score: 2
  
  It pretty much treated Texas a developing country, full of cheap labor, desperate government willing to pay companies to build, and no labor standards. Texas does have two advantage. First, unlike much of the south, we do not have Nazi style laws in which people can be stopped without probable cause and detained for lack of papers. Texas also has a pretty good higher educational system, so there are a lot of english majors in desperate need of work to pay of huge students loansIn state can easily rake up loans of 20K).
  Rick Perry, of course is desperate to keep unemployment down. The primary method of doing so is government job(texas has had about a 20% public sector job growth), the rest are low paying no benefit jobs. In this light the Apple jobs are likely to be superior, but certainly not the engineering jobs that we would be getting in Texas if we had a decent governor and lege. Texas does have engineers, and does have a lot technology, and we should not be begging for these third world jobs. I certainly don't like the slush fund the governor uses to get such deals done.
  
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Re:And the exodus from California to Texas begins by Space+cowboy · 2012-03-10 08:28 · Score: 4, Informative

Apple are also building a 16,000-employee campus in Cupertino, that's adding to the existing 6,000-employee campus they already have - they also have long-term leases on another 10,000-employee or so offices, but I'm guessing those will be let to expire once the new campus comes online in 3 years or so.
Simon

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3600 jobs? by Opportunist · 2012-03-10 08:30 · Score: 2, Funny

We're not over the first one yet!
(ok, that was tasteless, but hey, I got Karma to burn)

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customer device huge? by Qwertie · 2012-03-10 08:32 · Score: 5, Interesting

WTF is a customer device huge?
Re:Apple conveniently omitted this little fact... by UnknowingFool · 2012-03-10 08:33 · Score: 2

The article says "most of the jobs will be in sales, customer support and accounting for the region." What was omitted?

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Re:Apple conveniently omitted this little fact... by Wovel · 2012-03-10 08:42 · Score: 3, Insightful

3600 is the number of actual Apple employees, not the economic impact. They didn't omit nothing, you wandered ino fantasy land.
Re:whats a by Yvan256 · 2012-03-10 08:52 · Score: 2

Just one more sign that Slashdot is going downhill very fast.
Laugh by koan · 2012-03-10 08:58 · Score: 2

all your customer device huge are belong to us

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Re:Apple conveniently omitted this little fact... by BasilBrush · 2012-03-10 11:06 · Score: 2

Fact: These folks will not make more than minimum wage....
How do I know? I know because some other major technology company in the same state does exactly the same, and I visited their facility late last year.
This is clearly not the usual definition of the word "fact". The word you were looking for was "assumption".
Apple does good things and Apple does bad things. But what it doesn't do is exactly the same thing as "some other major technology company".
Re:How fitting by McGruber · 2012-03-10 12:38 · Score: 2, Funny

So I've heard all sorts of irrelevant or just plain wrong complaints about Austin.
Austin is a great place -- it has a great climate, wonderful food (especially BBQ) and beer, fun women, great live music and lots of other things to do.
The only thing wrong with Austin is that it’s surrounded by Texas.
Re:Apple conveniently omitted this little fact... by evanism · 2012-03-10 14:06 · Score: 2

Those are zombies, not robots.

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