Since84
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Post by Since84 on Dec 19, 2016 3:26:55 GMT -8
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Post by rmhe1999 on Dec 19, 2016 5:24:14 GMT -8
Just wanted to chime in here and say that since I'm off for the rest of the year, I hit up the Annapolis Apple Store today and picked up two pair of AirPods. No idea how much inventory they had but there were about 15 people lined up by 8 AM this morning.
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Post by ono on Dec 19, 2016 8:01:38 GMT -8
"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"If this is true, wow. They may have B and C players interviewing candidates in order to hire A players. How is that going to work out? Would any of AAPL's top talent, indeed even SJ himself, not have walked out of such a silly interview?
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Post by tuffett on Dec 19, 2016 9:04:47 GMT -8
"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"If this is true, wow. They may have B and C players interviewing candidates in order to hire A players. How is that going to work out? Would any of AAPL's top talent, indeed even SJ himself, not have walked out of such a silly interview? Take a fruit out of the box labeled as mixed. If it's an apple, then you know that's really the apple box, the orange box must really be the mixed box and the apple box is reallly the orange box. Vice versa if you pick an orange. I don't see anything wrong with these type of questions for the type of candidate Apple is looking for. Someone who can think and solve problems on the spot. Google is also well known for asking these sorts of questions.
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Post by mace on Dec 19, 2016 9:51:20 GMT -8
I suppose those are for new graduates who don't have experience. So can only gauge logical and critical thinking.
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Post by rob_london on Dec 19, 2016 10:36:27 GMT -8
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Post by tuffett on Dec 19, 2016 10:46:29 GMT -8
I suppose those are for new graduates who don't have experience. So can only gauge logical and critical thinking. Agreed. Certainly not for upper level management.
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Post by gtrplyr on Dec 19, 2016 11:37:44 GMT -8
"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"If this is true, wow. They may have B and C players interviewing candidates in order to hire A players. How is that going to work out? Would any of AAPL's top talent, indeed even SJ himself, not have walked out of such a silly interview? Take a fruit out of the box labeled as mixed. If it's an apple, then you know that's really the apple box, the orange box must really be the mixed box and the apple box is reallly the orange box. Vice versa if you pick an orange. I don't see anything wrong with these type of questions for the type of candidate Apple is looking for. Someone who can think and solve problems on the spot. Google is also well known for asking these sorts of questions. Well done ! I've been thinking about that since this morning. I re-read the question and it clicked .... wish I would have come up with that before reading your post though . In all fairness even though I didn't get the answer to that one .... I would have known to buy Netflix and Waze and skip paying Dr Dre and Iovine for Beats .... could have easily started my own streaming service and also headphone business ... Cheers to the longs .
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Post by sponge on Dec 19, 2016 13:09:16 GMT -8
The AirPods are awesome. Got them 2 days early.
Very easy to use and set up. Sound quality very good. They charge quickly.
Work seamlessly with the Apple Watch and iPad.
They will sell a ton. Could move the needle in the last few days of quarter.
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Post by mrentropy on Dec 19, 2016 13:35:07 GMT -8
"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"If this is true, wow. They may have B and C players interviewing candidates in order to hire A players. How is that going to work out? Would any of AAPL's top talent, indeed even SJ himself, not have walked out of such a silly interview? Take a fruit out of the box labeled as mixed. If it's an apple, then you know that's really the apple box, the orange box must really be the mixed box and the apple box is reallly the orange box. Vice versa if you pick an orange. I don't see anything wrong with these type of questions for the type of candidate Apple is looking for. Someone who can think and solve problems on the spot. Google is also well known for asking these sorts of questions. Actually, Google specifically doesn't ask these type of questions any more. They didn't really help reveal anything about the candidates. I've been on a Google interview and the tech interviews are exclusively coding problems now.
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Post by Luckychoices on Dec 19, 2016 14:55:39 GMT -8
I saw a story this morning about several stocks near their "Buy Point".
========== Tech Stocks Make Comeback As Apple, Netflix, Alphabet Near Buy Points by ALISSA CORAM, Investor's Business Daily
Tech stocks fell out of favor after the election sparked a wave of sector rotation, but they're now starting to make a comeback as Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and Google owner Alphabet (GOOGL) are all nearing buy points.
Apple closed Friday at 115.97, about 2% below a 118.79 flat base entry. Piper Jaffray on Friday rated the stock overweight, saying the consumer tech giant should have a good 2017 with mounting anticipation surrounding the Apple iPhone 8 as well as growth for its services business. ========== Today's close was $116.64. Since our only AAPL stock purchases these days are in our IRA accounts which are all set to automatically auto-reinvest our IRA dividends, I took a look back at our dividend stock purchases for 2016:
02/11/16 - shares purchased @$93.25, up 25.1% at today's close 05/12/16 - shares purchased @$91.10, up 28% at today's close 08/11/16 - shares purchased @$108.27, up 7.7% at today's close 11/10/16 - shares purchased @$108.07, up 7.9% at today's close
The total increase in share value for the 2016 auto-reinvested AAPL dividends is 17.0%
Now the reason I have the AAPL dividends auto-reinvested is because I suck at anticipating what this stock is going to do short term. Consequently, I've given up trying wait for the stock to move lower before I reinvest the dividends. Since I didn't know the definition of "Buy Point" I did a search and this was one of the examples of how it's defined: the best time to buy a stock is right when it breaks through prior resistance on big volume.
Call me crazy but it seems to me that a great time to buy AAPL was when it was under $100 and another great time will probably turn out to be when it's under $120.
Cheers to the remaining AAPL Longs!
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Post by ono on Dec 19, 2016 15:29:42 GMT -8
All good points.
Not long ago, AAPL strived to hire experienced and accomplished workers - from various backgrounds. A top class sommelier comes to mind. Exhibited passion was key. Demonstrated smarts too (not test smart). They paid OK, not great.
Some were destined to be challenging hires, and both AAPL and the candidate knew that going in. The candidate was made aware of job responsibilities, and the risk if they didn't perform. And that it was unlikely they would be getting any promotion for some time; and then if deserved.
Not challenging as in possibly insubordinate, or not a team player; but individuals with confidence and willingness to explore alternatives, ask questions, and above all, supply thought out ideas. Crazy idea OK, if supported by reasoning and fact.
Its a competitive job market. Some employees and potential employees aren't feeling that they're set to make a difference. If you're passionate (there's that word again); beware.
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Post by phoebear611 on Dec 19, 2016 16:00:19 GMT -8
"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"If this is true, wow. They may have B and C players interviewing candidates in order to hire A players. How is that going to work out? Would any of AAPL's top talent, indeed even SJ himself, not have walked out of such a silly interview? The structured products division of the firm I worked at a life time ago also asked these types of questions. They too were looking for creativity ... if you want to know how it all turned out just watch "The Big Short" .... and remember that super powers can be used for both good and evil.
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Post by Ted on Dec 19, 2016 17:07:31 GMT -8
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Post by PikesPique on Dec 20, 2016 13:13:33 GMT -8
"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"If this is true, wow. They may have B and C players interviewing candidates in order to hire A players. How is that going to work out? Would any of AAPL's top talent, indeed even SJ himself, not have walked out of such a silly interview? Take a fruit out of the box labeled as mixed. If it's an apple, then you know that's really the apple box, the orange box must really be the mixed box and the apple box is reallly the orange box. Vice versa if you pick an orange. I don't see anything wrong with these type of questions for the type of candidate Apple is looking for. Someone who can think and solve problems on the spot. Google is also well known for asking these sorts of questions. Hmmm. Well, the statement was "incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels" but it doesn't say the labels are "apples," "oranges," and "mixed." Your solution won't work if they are labeled "lions," "tigers," and "bears" even though those labels would satisfy the statement. Just sayin'. (Or as the lawyers say: assumes facts not in evidence.)
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