“Glassdoor’s new Top 100 CEOs list has some bad news for two industry giants. Bloomberg CEO Michael Bloomberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook saw huge drops in this year’s list as employee reviews suggested relative discontentment with the work cultures,” Aarthi Swaminathan reports for Yahoo Finance. “Bloomberg fell 67 spots — from #26 to #93 — while Cook is down to #96 from #53.”
“Results were compiled from employee reviews on Glassdoor,” Swaminathan reports. “Employees were asked to rate several factors tied to their employment experiences, including sentiment around the CEO’s leadership and workplace attributes regarding senior management.”
At Apple, Swaminathan reports, “employees surveyed were also dissatisfied with the pace of change. ‘Employees also speak to how the leadership team is slow to take action once employee feedback is shared and how teams are often strapped for resources and time,’ said Dobroski.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like Glassdoor interviewed employees who need Mac Pros.
As we wrote last year when Cook dropped 45 spots:
Ouch.
Wonder if the extended period of Mac mismanagement and/or Cook’s outspoken personal politics that may not necessarily mesh 100% with 100% of employees’ views were contributing factors?
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Apple CEO Cook kissed the ring in China because he had no choice – December 4, 2017
Tim Cook’s sloppy, unfocused Apple rushes to fix a major Mac security bug – November 29, 2017
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: The ‘operations genius’ who never has enough products to sell at launch – October 23, 2017
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Apple CEO Cook on President Trump, Steve Jobs’ legacy, and more – June 15, 2017
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President-elect Trump meets privately with Apple CEO Cook, tells tech leaders: ‘I’m here to help you folks do well’ – December 14, 2016
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Poll: Trump approval rating ties highest point of his presidency
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/392817-poll-trump-approval-rating-ties-highest-point-of-his-presidency
2nd in a 2 man race. 45% approve. Almost identical to the election outcome.
President Trump’s approval ratings are higher than the corrupt Obama’s at the same point in his first term of the U.S. presidency
President Trump – GREEN
Obama – BLUE
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Since you’re being that way…
Can’t wait for the “electoral landslide” against him….
I hope you are waiting at least as excitedly as you were for Crooked Hillary’s coronation.
As you are fond of saying… “move on”. Hillary is not President.
That’s pretty normal. Obama inherited the Great Financial Crisis and worked hard for 8 years to build an economic engine through one of the worst financial crises around. Approval ratings are naturally low when people are out of work or have lost their home… and they usually put all the blame on the guy at the top right now. It’s human nature. Good thing for Trump that Obama spend 8 years while the economy was becoming more efficient and resilient.
What precisely does this have to do with the article, the Mac, or any other Apple subject?
Stop ruining this forum.
People have trouble with the “chain of command” and state “leadership team is slow to take action once employee feedback is shared.” I’m not there, so I cannot speak to specifics, but the two complaints listed sound a little childish.
“I have trouble being subordinate and I want you to respond to my cry now.” Sounds like it’s time to start your own business and see how that turns out.
It’s not surprising that Apple’s own employees don’t rate Pipeline very highly. No one is more intimate with how awful non-iPhone hardware has become at Apple, as well as software. The emphasis on quality has dropped dramatically under the leadership of Pipeline. The state of the Mac Mini says it all. Why won’t Pipeline update this sadly out of date product?
And why did he dump the most powerful one Apple ever made, then crap on about how wonderful the new ones were?
Is no one inside saying anything about this perception of him in and around this company
There is NO WAY I’m making any remark about Cook’s reputation going down….
… hopefully he will be able to get it back up.
What teams are “strapped for resources and time” at Apple?!?! Certainly not the iMac, MacBook, Mac mini, or Mac Pro line teams. Nobody has done anything with those lines at Apple for 1 to 4 years.
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Tim is WAY more interested in advancing the gay agenda than he is in perfecting Apple products. Theres no way to argue otherwise looking at his history. And, I could care less what he does on his free time but he sure as hell ain’t a top CEO and I ain’t talking about profits.
Please retire Tim and spend the rest of your entire life serving humanity in another sector. Follow your passion.
And the evidence continues to come in of lack of management committeemen to produce the best and most creative products in the industry. The employees want too, management continues to lack vision and to a great extent is living off the past.
““employees surveyed were also dissatisfied with the pace of change. ”
you mean like making a Mac Pro or upgrading the Mini… ?
” high stress”
deciding the exact shade for the Campus designer ceiling tiles and working one and half years on the door handles alone must have been stressful…
at least you can relax in that massive fruit garden….
Yep. There is no reason on God’s Greeen Earth that anyone competent running Apple wouldn’t ensure all devices and product lines (as well as OS software) were regularly updated to customer’s delight, instead of disdain, hopelessness and despair. No company should ever let user expectations fail to be met in a timely fashion and instead be met with dismal inaction.
Apple hasn’t been firing on all cylinders for some time on non-iPhones. So is the new company policy to wait until something gets to be a huge problem and embarrassment for them before they act and only then start to work on the fix and the extra time to fix it, exacerbating the problem?
That they don’t bother (and worse seem to never even seem to have thought about such a basic Business 101 practice until recently) to leave at least a small dept. in charge of Macs to maintain the product lines to user satisfaction and communicate with users?
This is gross incompetence no matter how you paint it from people who don’t understand their own product lines. Smily corporate faces telling us how important something is to them with no action to verify such earnest sentiment reveals the Emperor has no clothes and the element of trust and feelings of betrayal continue apace. They do the type of damage to reputation much harder then to reclaim than if they had been doing their over-compensated jobs to begin with.
Preplexing.. isnt it!?
its hard to comprehend some of the ‘in your face’ obvious grand F-ups!!
I’ll second that …
Do you think there are a lot of people out there that are inspired by and love expressing themselves through a unicorn face ??🧐🤔
Just trying to make sense of the broader underlying reasoning 😉 😅
No wonder Tim Cook falls in staff ranking as under his “leadership” Apple has for all practical purposes
• Gutted the Mac Pro product line
• Gutted the Mac mini product line
• Gutted the Displays product line
• Gutted the Networking peripherals product line
• Gutted macOS server
• Crippled iWorks to the extent the 09 version still have more features
• Handled the MacBook Pro product mix particularly bad in terms of performance vs thinness.
• Increased the pressure on staff to deliver yearly major releases of not one operating system like under Steve Jobs, but now 4. This has both lead to an increase in issues and reduced quality, but it also draining on the developer community where particularly Indie developers with limited resources struggle to keep up.
While at the same time he and the company is spending a lot of time virtue signaling climate change, GLBT, internal US politics and this fantastic building they are working so hard on.
Particularly the consequence of the virtue signaling can be draining on staff both because staff may not necessarily at the personal level subscribe to the views of Tim Cook, yet they are being put in a position to defend them on behalf of the company.
For international staff company virtue signaling may be even more draining because the employee could work in a country that largely have resolved these issues up to decades ago, or they are completely taboo at the other end of the scale. They also can make the company seem fruity and less serious in the eyes of many customers and potential customers. Yet the employee is forced to front the official company profile.
I’m not even asking that Apple lead anymore. Just hit the same technology points as everyone else sometime within the same year.
Slick, BLACK and beautiful
8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-8750H processor, 6 Cores/12 Threads, 2.2GHz/4.1GHz (Base/Max Turbo), 9MB Cache
Mobile Intel® HM370 Chipset
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 Max-Q Design (8GB GDDR5 VRAM, Optimus™ Technology)
For Gamers: 15.6″ Full HD, 1920 x 1080
IPS, 144Hz
100% sRGB, 16:9 aspect ratio, matte screen
For Creative Pros: 15.6″ 4K, 3840 x 2160
IPS, 60Hz
100% aRGB, 16:9 aspect ratio, capacitive multi-touch
They’ve been busy.
The new AR system means you will never have to step on a physical Lego block again.
The new measuring system will revolutionize the Dick Pick industry.
They’ve signed Oprah.
And… there’s this.
“I’m not even asking that Apple lead anymore. Just hit the same technology points as everyone else sometime within the same year.”
WOW, that is a truly awful statement on the state of Apple today under the leadership of Pipeline. It’s awful, but 100% spot on.
FIRE Tim Cook!
Slow to react… Slow to enter new markets like streaming. Slow to upgrade existing products in order to juice up margins. Has anyone noticed Amazon’s market cap of 850B to Apples 914B and Google’s at 830B. Who wants to bet Amazon and Google beat Apple to 1T market cap. Tim Cook could have purchased Netflix for 20B when he choose to buy Beats for 3B. Now it would take 200B to buy Netflix. 4 years ahead of Netflix in renting and streaming a movie all wasted. Just like 4 years ahead of Amazon in voice AI. Wasted. Late to home speaker market with product with limited appeal to mass market. Nothing on Homekit. Let’s see if Tim lets AR leave Apple in the dust. Time for new management.
Tim Cooks legacy will be as a caretaker who missed Streaming, Missed Voice AI and sadly will likely miss AR.
“Apple’s Cook was the tech CEO with the biggest drop in rankings. The main grievance was also the work culture,”
NO SURPRISE PIPELINE. The political virtue signaling culture, the no Macs culture, the focus group culture, the fashionista culture, the Beats culture, the buggy software culture, the secretive culture and the clueless culture.
Apple NEEDS a visionary CEO, not a PC bean counter caretaker …
MDN’s take is Spot On!
Keep functioning ,remarkable job!