Apple reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,029 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43,029 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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1.0
Oct 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A great door opener to jobs elsewhere, particularly early on during your career. If you're young and inexperienced, they chuck loads on your shoulders which is good for making you into something. Other than that, it's difficult to find anything which was great about my time at Apple. If you want to work at Apple, make sure it's short and sharp. Use Apple on your CV as a door opener.

Cons

Don't be blinded by the sheer shine of Apple in the UK. As someone on the inside, I've seen a lot of colleagues go through nervous breakdowns, breakups/divorces, strops, bitching, and dismissals for minor things. Apple has very little sense of humour, and its employees frequently overworked and stressed with little support for career progression work life balance. If you work for Apple in the UK it's one of the most uncreative, dull and miserable places to work. In truth, it is more of a call centre with a load of project managers regurgitating the tightly controlled creative from the US for a European audience. I can't vouch for Apple US or (Apple Worldwide/ the 'mothership' as we used to call it), I've heard that over there it's entirely different and lives up to its image. If you're in the UK and are looking for a job with which you can grow and develop inside the company, with friendly people who are happy to help and give you progression don't come here. I've known several over qualified and amazing industry pros who moved to Apple hoping it would be the pinacle of their career (as it should be) and have left 2-3 years later, bitter about the lack of career development in their roles, having committed years of their time to Apple but staying stuck in the same role.

2.0
Jun 29, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to be part of a company that makes some of the most recognizable, and, in some cases, some of the best, products in the market today. Most people are proud to be there, and that's a plus. Also, despite the recent down turn, in terms of financial compensation, it's still very good in terms of stock options, and so on. Salary is at least OK.

Cons

Some of the people are not nice. They're effective in what they do, but they're not nice. It's one thing to be no-nonsense, but in my opinion one can still be polite and professional about things. There's a lot of politics, too much for my taste. But that's not the real problem, the problem is they see it as, at worst, a neutral attribute, and, at best, a good feature, which is puzzling to me. The biggest problem is the lack of process. The work gets done, but it's extremely inefficient, and, as with politics, some people actually see this as a feature rather than a problem. People spend a lot of time doing things that, were good processes in place, would not even be necessary. While people are hard working and put in a lot of time, they don't stop and ask themselves if they're doing things the right way. In a way, they're "disciplined" in doing many of the wrong things. The result is they keep hiring people, and they get burned out. In the words of one manager, every project is like a "moon shot". They're proud of this, instead of seeing it as a problem. After 30 years, making products should not be anything like moon shots.

1.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is still a big time, name brand company with a lot of international recognition. Apple is also continues to ride a huge amount of hype and (relatively speaking) recent business success. The stock options also made many of us multi-millionaires over a short period of time. A number of internal processes, the culture, and the people are also quite unique to Apple, and from a diversity of experience point of view, that's great exposure for one's career.

Cons

There are an unusually high number of individuals at Apple (both management and individual contributors, at various levels), who would clearly NOT be successful at any other company or period of time. But that's not the problem. The problem is that many of those individuals genuinely believe in their own talent, capabilities, and accomplishments and make ridiculous decisions based off these fundamental dillusions. Bozo cancer has also reached Stage III levels.

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