Apple reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,008 total reviews)
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Tim Cook

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43,008 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Apple employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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43K reviews
2.0
Sep 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work on industry leading technology; few jobs will involve technology which reaches as many people as the hardware and software Apple produces Reasonable pay, but good benefits (on-site doctor, good health plan, etc.) Challenging work environment with a high potential for personal development

Cons

Absolutely no work/life balance; arguably one of the worst among large Bay Area companies. You should be OK not seeing your family and friends very often, and it helps to have a personality that thrives on constant stress and work. Schizophrenic upper and middle management, changing priorities constantly and treating engineers like disposable resources. Release goals are often unachievable, and code is often hurriedly thrown together. Software quality suffers as a result. Poor facilities: employees often have no place to park, and are all but required to eat at the on-campus cafeteria (which is not free) to avoid losing parking spots. It wasn't uncommon to have to spend 30 minutes hunting for parking in residential Cupertino after getting back from a doctor's appointment. Campus is generally overcrowded with work environments that aren't conducive to productivity.

5.0
Aug 29, 2016

Technical Specialist

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You learn how to deal with challenging situations and develop exceptional positioning skills. - You are treated very well. - Flexible hours. - Great benefits.

Cons

- Long days. - Very busy environment. - There are days when you're in challenging conversations back to back that require escalation.

1.0
Nov 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice cafeteria. It was exciting at first, thinking I was going to help the famous garage-shop entrepreneur with his dream.

Cons

It's just unbelievable that, after I hired on I had absolutely no job assignment, no introduction to the group, no keys to the group area. Just sat there waiting, waiting waiting. No matter how much I studied the product line and showed how I could use my skill set to really help them where I knew help was needed, all I got was nothing, no communication, no job assignment. So I watched a critical product get delayed, and delayed, and delayed. Instead of analysis and calculations, their approach to solve the problem was to have meetings meetings meetings on and on with a bunch of people who couldn't care less, staring at their cell phones instead of joining the meeting! I was like, This is Apple? RUFKMe? By having meetings upon meetings the manager could lie to the upper management that something was being done.I looked back at my resume to make sure it didn't say somewhere, "I am skilled at being ignored and tapping my fingers on my desk". Nope, not in there.

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