What are some Mac friendly employers?

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By this I mean large companies that would have branches in multiple cities or are just really big who hire people for their Mac experience?

Please keep the companies relatively large. Mom&Dad's Copy Shop doesn't count. Kinko's does.
Are there any Fortune 500 companies with large Mac departments?

On the same thread, how about Mac friendly Universitys? I know Dartmouth and University of Texas are. How about some others?

Oklahoma State is kind of odd. The honors and foreign language departments use Macs exclusively. And each computer lab is outfitted with a few macs to compliment the Dell p3s...

And the bookstore is one big Mac Zealot orgy, when it comes to their fascination with computers big grin

so if you were here, with a Mac, you'd seem lonely at first, until you find your niche..

I, on the other hand, am here trying to find a mac... and the money to spend on it

My parents work at UT, I grew up at UT, I worked at UT, I'm applying to UT. Can't even think about that hell north of us smileu
Vertis / LTC Group we are a digital pre-media company. Heavy design prepress and web media. We are over 60 companies strong.

Yea, I'd never go to Canada either
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Is this unfair big grin
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is 80% Mac, though they are only in Cambridge, MA right now. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) went to the dark-side about four years ago. BCG had offices all over the world. Too bad.

Any ad agency will be Macish. Saatchi is, I know that for a fact.



No - I haven't lost it.

The Evil Empire used to (maybe still does?) have as many Mac developers as Apple. How else would they develop MacOffice and IE for Macintosh?

"Oh! The irony of it!"

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How about NASA, they are apparently huge into Macs
Shoot... I can't remember the name of the company. But they are the creators/distributors of Pokemon and many many other cartoon/RPG type stuff.

They have offices in Seattle, I got a phone interview with a headhunter recruiting for them.

Very heavy Mac place.

Various departments of NASA are known to have many Macs, and with MacOS X, that might grow a little.

Well, I can vouch for IU in Bloomington, Indiana. I'm a sys admin responsible for about 500 Macs, distributed as labs, classrooms, and email terminals.

There are also many departments that are Mac-centric or friendly: Journalism, Biology, Fine Arts, Telecom, and Library/Information Science to name a few.


Many Primary and Secondary schools in the U.S. as well. Often times to their own detriment. wink

Ah, usually because they can't figure out how to support them correctly. Most multi-user Mac problems I have encountered are usually caused by a user doing dumb things, many of which could have been prevented by a good admin.

Like me. big grin


I hear Apple employs mac users from time to time.

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I'm aiming to be a SysAdmin for a Mac friendly network, and am wondering where I would look at. (I imagine the world will be different in four years when I graduate, but maybe not)

Yes, Apple would be the ultimate place to work.


Don't get your hopes up. I suggest putting some time into learning Unix and Windows. If you want to be a sysadmin those are the platforms you will see. The only Mac servers my company have ar small webservers, FileMaker, File Sharing/backup. Hardly even need anybody to take care of them. Now that MacOS X is out Unix will really help. Hopefully Apple and 3rd parties will make easy to use Gui interfaces for anything server related.

Entertainment companies: Disney, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network all have absolutely TONS of Macs. Desktop publishing and the publishing world in general (magazines and comic books) also have lots of Macs.

The servers do tend to be Unix, but what with the Reeses computer "hey, you got unix in my mac" "hey you got Mac in my Unix" thing, we may see some growth in that area. Can't hurt to know Unix and Mac.


I'm fully aware that Windows and UNIX are the primary network OS's. That's cool, I'm learning them right now. But I want to work in a cross platform enviroment, instead of being forced to deal with only Windows all day. So I'm looking for companies that will let me do it all. Or something like that. Is there anything wrong with wanting to see a Mac at work?
Chrisale: the company you are thinking of is Nintendo.
And yes, "creative places" are where Macs hang out. Ad agencies, prepress shops, publishing houses (books, magazines, newspapers) etc. Many computer animation shops use Macs, too (not the big boys, of course.)
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