heard of the four floors of sin in singapore?
The sex industry is regulated and managed in Singapore. 
Take a look at the Geylang lorongs and Desker road
BA_lurker,
Irrelevant to to what I am referring to. Not referring to red light district. Do you know where they are in SV?
What percent of engineering grads are female or minority? You canât make engineering 50% female until close to 50% of engineering grads are women. Also, retention in Silicon Valley is much lower than the rest of the country. 10-20% annual attrition is common in the valley. The same employer can have <3% attrition in other locations.
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Why donât the SV companies make that argument publicly or what do they have to hide? People will understand if they have the data to support their argument.
They probably donât want to admit how high attrition is. It looks bad to perspective employees.
I donât get why they donât show the distribution of applicants. It wouldnât be difficult to show how many are male/female and each ethnicity based on whoever answers the questions when applying. They could include the % that decline as well.
I thought I heard something about it on the radio this afternoon. About 19% of women work in Facebook or something like that. I listened it on KGO radio.
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People know this very well. Bezos has mentioned this, in fact, but thereâs a lot of talent in SV, and itâs hard to move an entire team to Seattle, so they settle for talented with high turnover (for the companies theyâve aquiredâlike A9 and Lab126)
My point is, if the companies know this well & the employees in Bay Area know this well, itâs better to own up to it giving data supported logical reasoning rather than playing the perception game.
Yeah, but then Apple may not get over 1,000 applicants per open position. Then they wouldnât be able to threaten unhappy employees that they could get over 1,000 applicants to replace you.
Is a dilemma here. I heard the good ones with the right experienced are hard to recruit and keep.
There are plenty of inexperienced and average ones around.
In this hyper-competitive market, it pays to compensate the good experienced ones handsomely and with golden cuffs.
IMHO, the inexperienced needs a lot help from the colleges, businesses and the government. Some1 has to help them to get experience or provide more internships or work with as many big corporate as possible, besiege them to be good corporate citizens. The average ones should leave the industry or go to somewhere where no need such a high level of skills. SV is for the elite, hate to say that.
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You use to work in Apple?
Yes. The whole mantra that tâs a honor to tell people you work at Apple got old. The attitude that promotions require working 60 hours a week while smiling about how lucky you are is insane, it just wasnât special once Jobs wasnât running it. Cook is brilliant in his own way, but heâs not the product visionary. I was approached about going back for the car project. Automotive combined with Apple would be pretty pretty awesome. Iâm definitely glad I didnât since they bailed on it.
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Making a quick detour to Apple from UberâŠ
Are most Managers in Apple a "D**k*?
Iâm asking because, my wife recently went for a job interview(Engineering Program Manager), at Apple. The Hiring Manager was so rude, insensitive & brusque - I donât think she would ever want to work there or at least for that manager. My wife is highly hands on technical person, makes enough money in her current job(where she has been working for a while) that she can buy a decent sized house in Ardenwood(Fremont area) only on her own salary. So that behavior from the manager, I donât think she will forget easily.
Another example - a colleague of hers went to Apple and came back to his old company after 2 years because his manager in Apple used to ask him for updates twice a day. From what I hear that colleague is technically very good & very pleasant to work with.
Following is one of the most âhelpfulâ reviews of Apple on glassdoor.com. Note the Cons part
Pros
We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?
Cons
ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just donât lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DONâT care
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I think the issue is lack of any standardization. I had a range from horrible to amazing. The worst threw me under the bus for a failed project that he was leading. I actually went to HR who said it was my âopinionâ that I wasnât on the project and wasnât invited to any of the meetings. I told her no, itâs a verifiable fact. My boss sent the meeting invites, and you can verify I wasnât on them. Then he blocked me from moving within the company by telling everyone heâd need 5 months to hire and train my replacement before I could join their team. I found out when a team I worked with tried to recruit me, and they told me what happened. I lucked out and got moved under a different manager when some other changes happened with our department. He ended up being fired after I left the company. I also had one of the best managers Iâve ever had, and Iâm a better people manager today from having worked for her. Her people skills were amazing. Everyone loves working for her.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-isnt-sure-remain-viable-120000393.html
In its response to court on Friday, Uber said stopping its work on self-driving cars would threaten its future as a âa viable business.â
âTo hinder Uberâs continued progress in its independent development of an in-house lidar that is fundamentally different than Waymoâs, when Uber has not used any of Waymoâs trade secrets, would impede Uberâs efforts to remain a viable business, stifle the talent and ingenuity that are the primary drivers of this emerging industry, and risk delaying the implementation of technology that could prevent car accidents,â Uber said (emphasis ours).
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