As BlackBerry lays of 40% of workers, Apple sees opportunity to recruit talent
Less than a week after BlackBerry announced plans to slash 40 percent of its workforce, Apple hosted a recruitment drive near the company's corporate headquarters in Canada.
Apple reportedly held the event to hire new talent on Sept. 26 in Waterloo, Ontario, according to the Financial Post. Invitations to the event were reportedly sent out by Apple to BlackBerry employees via the employment-focused social networking site LinkedIn.
In that note, Apple informed prospective employees that most of the jobs it is hiring for will be based out of its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. The iPhone maker promised immigration assistance and relocation compensation for candidates that may be hired.
Just six days before — the same day Apple launched the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c — BlackBerry announced it would be laying off 40 percent of its workforce. A few days after that, BlackBerry revealed it had agreed to a $4.7 billion buyout from a Toronto holding company.
Apple isn't alone in looking to pick up potential talent from BlackBerry, as Intel also reportedly held a recruiting fair just a few days later.
Once virtually synonymous with the idea of mobile productivity, BlackBerry was slow to react to the emergence of competition from Apple's iPhone and other devices running Google's Android operating system. The years since its peak have seen BlackBerry, formerly known as Research in Motion, plummet in terms of both market share and revenue.
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Over exaggeration of the century?
Grab a few engineers maybe, but don't grab any management or upper management types, as Blackberry's management has got to be the biggest bunch of clueless morons ever.
I hope the Apple can get some of their good RF engineers. BlackBerry phones still have some of the best cellular transceivers in the business. Even with the new generation, you can place a call on a Z10 where the iPhone 5c or 5s has no service.
I'm not sure how much success they'll have convincing engineers to move to the US though. While Canadians generally have no problems with Americans, the current government fiasco over healthcare and the polarized politics have made it more difficult for us Canadians to take the country seriously.
I'm not sure how much success they'll have convincing engineers to move to the US though. While Canadians generally have no problems with Americans, the current government fiasco over healthcare and the polarized politics have made it more difficult for us Canadians to take the country seriously.
So let them stay up north and starve, their choice. They are not exactly essential.
I hope the Apple can get some of their good RF engineers. BlackBerry phones still have some of the best cellular transceivers in the business. Even with the new generation, you can place a call on a Z10 where the iPhone 5c or 5s has no service.
True. But the iPhone's less than superior antenna is not a product of inferior engineering. It's one of the very few examples of form over function amongst Apple products.
Grab a few engineers maybe, but don't grab any management or upper management types, as Blackberry's management has got to be the biggest bunch of clueless morons ever.
Easy to kick someone when they are down. When Apple was down, were their middle managers clueless morons? Well, some of those clueless morons are still at Cupertino and seemingly much more clued in.
Because Apple won't give them health insurance?
I was about to say something about being hungry making the US look decent.
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Easy to kick someone when they are down. When Apple was down, were their middle managers clueless morons? Well, some of those clueless morons are still at Cupertino and seemingly much more clued in.
I don't mind kicking people, regardless if they're down or not. As long as it's deserved, then they deserve to be kicked.
And yes, Apple's bad period was due to bad management.
You are a riot! Your country has screwed up their healthcare system so bad, my Mother's doctor left Ontario after seeing his patients die or become drug addicts while waiting for their appts with specialists that took over a year. By the time their appt was approaching, one patient had succumbed to his back injury and the other was addicted to pain killers.
Add to the mix, Ted Cruz is Canadian. I would gladly trade him for a couple of engineers from Waterloo. At least they can get fired for not doing their job.
Disclosure: like a lot of Americans, I blame both parties.
Maybe a very few but Steve put his dream team in place and went to town restructuring Apple into a businesses that could survive until they could deliver new products.
You are a riot! Your country has screwed up their healthcare system so bad, my Mother's doctor left Ontario after seeing his patients die or become drug addicts while waiting for their appts with specialists that took over a year. By the time their appt was approaching, one patient had succumbed to his back injury and the other was addicted to pain killers.
Yes... having read your little rant I can only deduce that the Canadian health care system is a mess and drives patients to drug addiction or death, and that the US health care system is much better, more efficient, fairer and doesn't drive people to drug addiction and death.
In any event back to Apples future Canadian employees. The problem isn't the countries state but rather the culture shock of going to work in the Bay Area. There are many things to adapt to from the earthquakes to vastly different climate to the overwhelming number of criminals from the south. Hell for most Americans California sucks as a state. So for transplants from Canada it won't be easy to adapt.
I do hope the hired engineers ask for a huge pay raise because the other big problem for Apple in the Bay Area is cost of living.
Apple might as well just buy RIM with the spare change from last weeks interest on their cash pile. I'm sure they won't miss it anyway...
Apple is not in the charity business, and Apple should not buy Blackberry, because it's not worth it.