[krzyk]

Largest? You mean employing the most people or having the largest area?

As for the employees, Apple has about 115 thousands, IBM has about 379 thousands, Samsung has 319 thousands, HP has 289 thousands (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio...).

You probably meant the most valuable (stock number * stock price).

[mwfunk]

He probably just meant "having the most resources" in some very general sense. But it's true, in terms of # of employees it's nowhere near the largest. In fact the vast majority of those 115000 people are retail employees. I would estimate that in terms of engineers, it's more like 20k or less.

[Eric_WVGG]

If that figure includes Apple Store employees, the number of engineers and product people is even lower.

Cook has said multiple times that their biggest challenge is acquisition and retention of talent.

[mahyarm]

Maybe they could give market rate offers (ie facebook or google rates) to sr engineers then.

You have to work there for 2 to 3 years before you start matching FB or Google.

[desireco42]

Per product, they probably have most employees, both overall and if you count R&D