Apple gets over 50 applicants for every job, every day, says survey

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Jobs at Apple are among the most highly sought after in the US, with only Netflix, Amazon, and Microsoft attracting more applicants.

Apple's Tim Cook has said that the company is "very deliberate on our hiring," as it's mostly avoided the kind of mass layoffs that other technology firms have repeatedly made. It is still recruiting, though, and a new report says that it is consistently attracting among the greatest number of applicants.

Resume.io used LinkedIn's facility to show how many people have applied for a particular job. "Sure, seeing a large number of applicants for a job posted just two days ago can be disheartening," says Resume.io in a blog post, "but it's a feature that can also paint a clear picture of which companies are the most fiercely competitive to apply to and which are not nearly as popular."

Overall, Big Tech firms are top of the list for job applicants in the US, with Apple attracting an average of 53.7 applications for each job, each day.

However, Netflix tops the charts with an average of 84.87 applicants per day. The next most consistently popular was Amazon on 73.25 applicants daily, and then just ahead of Apple was Microsoft with 57.9 applicants.

Big Tech firms took the top seven places with these plus Meta, Oracle and Tesla. Alphabet and IBM were in 18th and 19th place respectively, and the remainder of the top 20 firms varied across banking and retail.

Average daily applicants per job. (Source: Resume.io)

"Trailing far behind major players Apple (53.74 applicants) and Oracle (49.22 applicants) comes Intel (12.07 applicants), the least competitive Big Tech company to apply for a job," says the report. "The chipmaker firm is reportedly struggling to fill key positions due to a shortage of skilled labor."

The survey concluded that the "restaurant chains Zaxby's and Applebee's rank as the least competitive American companies to apply to, with the average job listing for each receiving 0.01 applicants per day."

LinkedIn is of course not the only route that job applicants take, so this can only be illustrative. However, Apple did lay off 100 of its own recruiters in 2022, meaning there will be fewer cases of workers being head-hunted instead of directly applying.

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Draco

To anyone good enough to be hired by Apple: There are alternatives that will treat you better. And in regions that don't cost an arm and a leg to live in. 

mikethemartian

I always see new postings in my job feed from Apple for their local office (originally AuthenTec). Many companies post fake job listings so they can evaluate the job market so I don’t know if they are actually actively recruiting or not.

darkvader

Draco said:

To anyone good enough to be hired by Apple: There are alternatives that will treat you better. And in regions that don't cost an arm and a leg to live in. 

Yep.  I've never worked directly for Apple, but I know people who have.  It's not the worst work environment, but it's far from the best.  It does look good on your resume, though, so you're more likely to get hired by a company that will treat you better.  Some of them moved on to jobs at Google and Microsloth, which it turns out are better for your work-life balance and salary.  Others have started companies, I suspect the Apple jobs helped them get funding.  And they were in engineering, not retail, I don't know that Apple retail does much for your resume.

cpsro

Netflix? 😆

Flappo

Yet they still emptoy Eddie cue 

byronl

darkvader said:

Draco said:

To anyone good enough to be hired by Apple: There are alternatives that will treat you better. And in regions that don't cost an arm and a leg to live in. 

Yep.  I've never worked directly for Apple, but I know people who have.  It's not the worst work environment, but it's far from the best.  It does look good on your resume, though, so you're more likely to get hired by a company that will treat you better.  Some of them moved on to jobs at Google and Microsloth, which it turns out are better for your work-life balance and salary.  Others have started companies, I suspect the Apple jobs helped them get funding.  And they were in engineering, not retail, I don't know that Apple retail does much for your resume.

How do other companies treat you better? Also, do these companies pay as well as Apple does

byronl

cpsro said:

Netflix? 😆

Yea, why would they be No 1 in applications?

radarthekat

The clear lesson here is, don't add 'bees' to your company name.  

darkvader

byronl said:

darkvader said:

Draco said:

To anyone good enough to be hired by Apple: There are alternatives that will treat you better. And in regions that don't cost an arm and a leg to live in. 

Yep.  I've never worked directly for Apple, but I know people who have.  It's not the worst work environment, but it's far from the best.  It does look good on your resume, though, so you're more likely to get hired by a company that will treat you better.  Some of them moved on to jobs at Google and Microsloth, which it turns out are better for your work-life balance and salary.  Others have started companies, I suspect the Apple jobs helped them get funding.  And they were in engineering, not retail, I don't know that Apple retail does much for your resume.

How do other companies treat you better? Also, do these companies pay as well as Apple does

Other companies tend to better handle the concept of work/life balance.  And Apple isn't exactly known for their high pay.  Engineers tend to be paid somewhat below industry standards.  And even as outrageous as Timmy's pay is, it's still only 11th for ridiculous CEO pay.

byronl

darkvader said:

byronl said:

darkvader said:

Draco said:

To anyone good enough to be hired by Apple: There are alternatives that will treat you better. And in regions that don't cost an arm and a leg to live in. 

Yep.  I've never worked directly for Apple, but I know people who have.  It's not the worst work environment, but it's far from the best.  It does look good on your resume, though, so you're more likely to get hired by a company that will treat you better.  Some of them moved on to jobs at Google and Microsloth, which it turns out are better for your work-life balance and salary.  Others have started companies, I suspect the Apple jobs helped them get funding.  And they were in engineering, not retail, I don't know that Apple retail does much for your resume.

How do other companies treat you better? Also, do these companies pay as well as Apple does

Other companies tend to better handle the concept of work/life balance.  And Apple isn't exactly known for their high pay.  Engineers tend to be paid somewhat below industry standards.  And even as outrageous as Timmy's pay is, it's still only 11th for ridiculous CEO pay.

Thanks for the reply. Why does this make zero sense to me? Apple obviously wants the best engineers they can get, so wouldn’t it make sense to pay them the industry standards at least? Or do they want people committed to the company so much that they accept a lower pay?