Apple reviews

- Clueless middle management interferes too much and changes the scope of the work leading to frustration - Favoritism in all forms is very prevalent, the favorites get the best projects, tasks, opportunities and visibility while the rest are made to slave away for the cause of betterment of the managers and their favorites - QA gets treated very badly and most of the time it’s because of the middle management who volunteer their engineers for all kinds of tasks out of scope from traditional QA roles - Promotions are based on favoritism rather than by performance or value added - Management is solely focused on kingdom building and this has resulted in lax hiring - No respect is given to truly knowledgeable people , promotion is only given to people who can talk loudly even though it’s just empty noise - HR will always side with the management and you will get screwed during the review process if you rub anyone in management the wrong way

Apple has a habit of hiring people based on initial qualities. Unfortunately, this often means you'll work with some of the most horrendous, lazy people. Ritual-almost child-like morning updates and tasks, focused on recycling as much repetitive tasks and mantra's regarding apple products. Any dis-taste or preference away from products that are not made by them almost leads to habitual bullying. Better hide your Samsung at home. No route to go. Habitual gate-keeping of roles and use of promotions as bargaining tools. Convoluted, childish and almost cliche internal politics involved make management, on occasion, look worse than the often childish staff they're there to manage. You will often mix with a variety of staff who have simply been employed for a longer time. The 10 Year + colleagues are basically furniture, and as such were able to dictate their wage at an early time. You'll often find yourself working with far older colleagues who have abnormally high salaries whilst performing tasks to a bare minimum standard. The staff have been fairly well treated. This has led to unmanageable expectations, delusions of grandeur within the company and slightly large egos within a micro-cosmos. The pay is only slightly above minimum wage, and has not increased with inflation to an acceptable standard. Do not be fooled by rumours. Almost all of my roles have paid something similar or more.