[HN Gopher] Apple struggles to recruit and retain talent because...
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       Apple struggles to recruit and retain talent because of Silicon
       Valley
        
       Author : retskrad
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-07-04 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | I can only speak for myself but Tim Cook's Apple seems more like
       | you're joining as a tiny cog in a huge manufacturing machine and
       | not as someone who actually gets to make decisions to improve the
       | product. Otherwise, I wouldn't know why Apple's developers added
       | so many "features" that developers hate.
        
       | deregulateMed wrote:
       | They think it's location based? I just can't work for a company
       | that bends to the Chinese Dictatorship and suppresses Democratic
       | ideas.
        
       | wolverine876 wrote:
       | Note that it's been going on for years and it's not related to
       | the trendy anti-urban, anti-SV, anti-CA meme.
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       | I'd be interested in interviews with executives about what is
       | attractive about SV and what, if anything, has changed (without
       | the current trendy stuff). Living costs and talent have been
       | expensive for a long time.
        
         | novok wrote:
         | Cupertino is boring american suburb too, and as far as american
         | suburbs goes, a bit shoddy and crappy. Not that urban.
        
       | ampdepolymerase wrote:
       | It is a well known fact that Apple's pay is bad. They are like
       | game studios, they sell a dream and the perception of changing
       | the world to engineers who should be old enough to know better.
        
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