Fearless Feedback! Tech Workers Dish Dirt on Their Employers
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Apple
Technical Support Agent (current employee):
Always something new! Great customers, great co-workers, great products. Opportunities for advancement exist — Apple expects the best and promotes the best. Feedback from management is fair, frequent and consistent. Training is expected and encouraged.
Senior Hardware Engineer (current employee):
Pros: great company, great product, job security (at least for now in 2009), challenging and interesting work. Cons: extremely long hours for people around me. I’ve heard some other groups are less stressful and work regular hours, but overall people work very hard and long hours.
Anonymous (past employee — 2007):
Apple is the type of company that you really want to work for. Senior leadership, products, market reputation are first rate.
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Look at EBay’s CEO Disapproval rating…almost half. Big ‘ouch!’.
I can’t decide if Steve Jobs at 91% is amazing or horrendous… The only people with approval numbers that “high” are third-world dictators.
Why can’t people just drink the Donahoe kool-aid and go along with all his and his management team’s lies.
Fearless? Seriously? These people are anonymous. Fearless would be to 1. go to the CEO and give him/ her this feedback then 2. offer to fix things and indeed do your best to fix things, failing which 3. quit. Oh wait, the economy is in the doldrums, isn’t it? The fearless are afraid to lose their jobs.
No, quite the contrary, savvy tech workers dish dirt to their own company and create an opportunity for thelmselves. No one will get a promotion or raise in these times sitting at their desk doing the same job. You must upsell yourself, dishing dirt can work to you advantage if done correctly.
Now you have some good stocks to short ;-)