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Apple is the biggest company on earth and out of the FAANG companies, they are the most prestigious place to work. Their market cap is on it's way to 10 Trillio

Apple is the biggest company on earth and out of the FAANG companies, they are the most prestigious place to work. Their market cap is on it's way to 10 Trillion. There's very little incentive for people to jeopardize this job and give up their stock in the company.

cobaltoxide 4y ago
> Apple is the biggest company on earth Hardly. It is number six on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r... And does not even appear on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers > they are the most prestigious place to work Eh, that doesn't seem to be a universally accepted point of view.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  I think GP was talking about market cap, not number of employees.
- fumar 4y ago
  I don't know why you are downvoted. I agree. Personal experience says that Apple is not a great place to work at for PMs. I am curious to hear other folks chime in to round out the discussion.
- 1986 4y ago
  And yet, it's number 1 on this list, which is linked from both of the lists you linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
- scarface74 4y ago
  Revenue is not a measure of success. It’s about how much you keep - profit.
jensensbutton 4y ago
Definitely not the most prestigious FAANG to work at. Perhaps if you're a hardware designer/engineer? Certainly not for software.
- nebula8804 4y ago
  They all make some decent software and some shit software.
- omosubi 4y ago
  What's the most prestigious?
zeruch 4y ago
"Apple is the biggest company on earth and out of the FAANG companies" A pointless metric given that over the last 5+ years, Google/Apple/Amazon have had and lost that spot back and forth. It's a vanity metric and in terms of the actual business, is an abstraction. "they are the most prestigious place to work." By what criteria? If you are talking about by patents and research filed, it would be IBM (which is also the longest running firm at over a century), if its hardware one might be more impressed by SpaceX, if....etc. "Prestige" is another vanity abstraction, and isn't even prone to a metric. "Their market cap is on it's way to 10 Trillion. There's very little incentive for people to jeopardize this job and give up their stock in the company." If that were as true as you state, people wouldn't leave for startups at the rate that they do. Startups wouldn't be as common in general if these big 'prestige' firms were such a thing, but the valley only in the last dozen years or so has fallen to that as 'common wisdom' when the actual habits are a lot more mundane -- NDAs and it's a small valley so people who can't keep a secret don't get hired elsewhere. That was the case in the 90s when the big players were HP, IBM, MSFT, Sun, SGI,and folks bounced from firm to firm, it was the case a decade later when folks started moving into what became the dotcom wave........

cobaltoxide 4y ago

> Apple is the biggest company on earth Hardly. It is number six on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r... And does not even appear on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers > they are the most prestigious place to work Eh, that doesn't seem to be a universally accepted point of view.

gnicholas 4y ago
I think GP was talking about market cap, not number of employees.
fumar 4y ago
I don't know why you are downvoted. I agree. Personal experience says that Apple is not a great place to work at for PMs. I am curious to hear other folks chime in to round out the discussion.
1986 4y ago
And yet, it's number 1 on this list, which is linked from both of the lists you linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
scarface74 4y ago
Revenue is not a measure of success. It’s about how much you keep - profit.

jensensbutton 4y ago

Definitely not the most prestigious FAANG to work at. Perhaps if you're a hardware designer/engineer? Certainly not for software.

nebula8804 4y ago
They all make some decent software and some shit software.
omosubi 4y ago
What's the most prestigious?

zeruch 4y ago

"Apple is the biggest company on earth and out of the FAANG companies" A pointless metric given that over the last 5+ years, Google/Apple/Amazon have had and lost that spot back and forth. It's a vanity metric and in terms of the actual business, is an abstraction. "they are the most prestigious place to work." By what criteria? If you are talking about by patents and research filed, it would be IBM (which is also the longest running firm at over a century), if its hardware one might be more impressed by SpaceX, if....etc. "Prestige" is another vanity abstraction, and isn't even prone to a metric. "Their market cap is on it's way to 10 Trillion. There's very little incentive for people to jeopardize this job and give up their stock in the company." If that were as true as you state, people wouldn't leave for startups at the rate that they do. Startups wouldn't be as common in general if these big 'prestige' firms were such a thing, but the valley only in the last dozen years or so has fallen to that as 'common wisdom' when the actual habits are a lot more mundane -- NDAs and it's a small valley so people who can't keep a secret don't get hired elsewhere. That was the case in the 90s when the big players were HP, IBM, MSFT, Sun, SGI,and folks bounced from firm to firm, it was the case a decade later when folks started moving into what became the dotcom wave........