People These Days Want to Work at Google, Apple, Facebook
Given a choice, which would be the place to work for you?
According to a survey conducted by consulting firm Universum, most of us choose Google, Apple, Facebook, the U.S. State Department and Walt Disney as their top destinations.
Among 6700 college graduates below an age of 40, 19.7 percent of respondents said they would want to work for Google, which was 7 points ahead of Apple. Facebook was favored by 8.9 percent of the responses. All students were presented with a list of 200 possible employers. Among the top 25 answers are also the FBI, Microsoft, the CIA, NASA, Electronic Arts, Yahoo and the Peace Corps.
Chris Cordery, Universum's director of Americas, told the WSJ that Google has "established a very strong brand in what its culture is, in what it's like to work there." He noted that candidates "look at Google as compensating employees well and offering challenging work but at the same time it will be a fun and strong culture."
The ranking listed financial institutions at the bottom end of the ranking. Cordery said that "these organizations may not be as attractive as they once were."
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and so the monopoly will continue....... we need new companies, specially in the CPU sector, amd is not good enough to generate a competition ambient between them and intel....
[citation]Given a choice, which would be the place to work for you?[/citation]
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While the point of the article is to stress the relevance of tech companies the survey can also be used to tell the opposite:
U.S. Department of State 7.89%
The Walt Disney Company 7.67%
IBM 2.37%
Can we also tell the ones who answered Facebook or Apple are computer dummies? I wonder...
I would love to work at Google. You may disagree with their business practices but that does not mean they aren't a great place to work. Their employees are treated wonderfully.
What about photographer for Playboy?
I wouldn't want to work for google, their non-standard benefits are good, but their pay kind of sucks. It looked good at first as I was in colorado, but when I adjusted for cost of living for moving to california, it would have been a rather large pay cut.
I guess if you limit the scope to those respondents that's what you get. Widen it and this happens:
http://www.itworld.com/software/21 [...] workplaces
no one wants to work at ..... yahoo inc?
Big companies have big budgets to keep their employees happy.
This is BIG NEWS.
would rather work for valve or blizzard
Last I checked, other companies than Google didn't have an indoor treadmill-climbing wall.
I hear you can do apprenticeships for Apple at Foxconn.
I guess from these polls, it must be a LOVELY place to work.
Sounds like they were polling a bunch of history of art students.
What about photographer for Playboy?
Sign me up.
no valve or pixar? D: those would have been my choose
What about photographer for Playboy?
But then you have to look at Lindsay Lohan naked...
*shudder*
While the point of the article is to stress the relevance of tech companies the survey can also be used to tell the opposite:U.S. Department of State 7.89%The Walt Disney Company 7.67%IBM 2.37%Can we also tell the ones who answered Facebook or Apple are computer dummies? I wonder...
I can see how IBM is pretty low on the list.. as I type this from my IBM work laptop.
I'd sell my genitals to Satan before working for Facebook.
good luck hoof_hearted... nobody ever quits that jobI heard EA is very tough place to work for
I know a few people that have worked at EA in various jobs and its not a great place to work. The pay is decent and the benefits are pretty good, but the work atmosphere sucks and you get worked to the bone. Mind you, the job security is better than in most other companies in the video game industry.
Oh and don't be a tester at EA, that is a terrible, terrible job. They recruited for testers at my school (a couple blocks from their head office) and I know a few people that wasted their time doing that.
But then you have to look at Lindsay Lohan naked...*shudder*
Shutter?
Shutter?
I think he meant... SHOTGUN!!!
While the point of the article is to stress the relevance of tech companies the survey can also be used to tell the opposite:U.S. Department of State 7.89%The Walt Disney Company 7.67%IBM 2.37%Can we also tell the ones who answered Facebook or Apple are computer dummies? I wonder...
um no... you are working for a company, as a company, facebook is still growing, and a good stock option before it goes public could easily make you a millionaire.
you also have to understand that in a corporate environment, you are more employable as a colossal failure than you are as a mediocre worker.
No wonder I feel so depresssed everyday...
I suppose this was like a IT or tech college survey? i mean really?
are there no mechanical engineers... what about some other companies to go in that area... NASA really?
Its either the above or all of them failed to research for there future jobs... and look at any other options... and only managed to pick what is popular or easily recalled...
I'd like to work at Microsoft, hands down. Can't tolerate working for Google.