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Do they have this obnoxiously elitist focus? No. You sure about that? From http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/welcome.html http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/welcome.html
by JesseAldridge 16y ago
Do they have this obnoxiously elitist focus? No.
You sure about that?
From http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/welcome.html http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/welcome.html:
"Whether you want to be an iPod engineer, a Concierge at an Apple Retail Store, or a sushi chef on an Apple campus (yes, we have sushi chefs), we’re looking for the best. People who are smart, creative, up for any challenge, and incredibly excited about what they do. In other words, Apple people. You know, the kind of people you’d want to hang around with anyway."
- rmc 16y agoEvery company says the want to hire the best.
- JesseAldridge 16y agoWhich is why I didn't say the claim was false. I just have doubts that it's true. Googling "apple hiring process" turns up this: http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/hiring.html http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/hiring.html "And lastly, the competition for jobs is intense! Sr. v-p Retail Ron Johnson has said it's tougher to be hired than being accepted by Stanford University--literally. During one talk he said Apple hired 978 store employees during 2002 from an applicant pool of 16,438, or less than a 6% chance of being hired (Stanford accepted 12.6 % for 2005). Put another way, only 1 in 17 applicants is hired." Sure that's just retail, but it seems reasonable to guess that a similar hiring process exists for other fields.