A new LinkedIn analysis revealed that Apple employees will most likely leave the iPhone maker and join Google. This study was conducted by Switch on Business; a business builder website in Florida.
The analysis, which was published on Thursday, Nov. 23, checked LinkedIn accounts of employees working for tech giants, such as Apple, Meta, Google, Tesla, IBM, Netflix, etc.
Employees stand in an Apple retail store in Grand Central Terminal, January 3, 2019 in New York City. U.S. stocks dropped again on Thursday after Apple warned that its first-quarter sales would be less than expected.
The website's findings were able to show the top tech giant choices of Apple employees in case they resign from their current positions.
LinkedIn Analysis: Apple Employees Likely to Join Google
Switch on Business said that they highlighted the staff who are working for giant tech firms and those who previously worked for them.
"This allowed us to calculate the number and percentage of employees who've moved from each of these companies to another," said the business builder via its official analysis.
According to 9To5Mac's latest report, Switch on Business' study showed that Google is the number one option of Apple employees who are resigning.
The software giant is followed by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Tesla. To give you more idea, here's how many employees left Apple and switched to Google and other tech giants:
- Apple to Google: 3,858 employees
- Apple to Amazon: 1,973 employees
- Apple to Meta: 1,911 employees
- Apple to Microsoft: 1,394 employees
- Apple to Tesla: 944 employees
- Apple to Nvidia: 543 employees
- Apple to Salesforce; 499 employees
- Apple to Adobe: 458 employees
- Apple to Intel: 446 employees
- Apple to Oracle: 416 employees
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Top Talent Hunting Grounds of Apple
An employee works on smartphones reconditioning, mainly Iphones, at the Largo company headquarters which is a Back Market refurbishing company subcontractor, in Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, outside Nantes, on January 26, 2021.
Aside from the top tech giants that Apple employees go to, Switch on Business also analyzed the top companies where Apple usually got its employees.
These include the following:
- Intel: 4,773 employees went to Apple
- Microsoft: 2,811 employees went to Apple
- Amazon: 2,245 employees went to Apple
- Google: 2,126 employees went to Apple
- IBM: 2,080 employees went to Apple
- Oracle: 1,106 employees went to Apple
- Tesla: 737 employees went to Apple
- Nvidia: 734 employees went to Apple
- Adobe: 531 employees went to Apple
- Meta: 472 employees went to Apple
Intel is the number one tech giant that Apple relies on when it comes to hiring employees. This is because the gadget maker spent billions of dollars just to buy the chip manufacturer's smartphone model business in 2019.
When it comes to overall talent hiring, Apple is just the top 3 company that tech employees go to when applying for jobs. The LinkedIn analysis revealed that Microsoft is the number one company that tech workers go to; with over 4,200 staff going to the software giant.
If you want to learn more about the tech employees going in and out of Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other giant companies, you can click here.
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