I've seen the culture shift over the last decade - Graphics Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

4.0
May 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The company treats you well with benefits, on-site facilities, perks and discounts. A vast majority of teams are working on something new and exciting. Tim Cook is making Apple a leading example of what a company should be to its customers (privacy), its country and environment (energy / climate).

Cons

If your team is working on something new and exciting, it can be a little too exciting. The pace seems to gradually increase but never level off. The "next thing's" features are more important that the bugs-in-the-wild you desperately want to fix for customers. Since Steve Jobs left, there doesn't feel to be someone at/near the top who has their finger on the pulse of the products. Yes, Steve was intense at times but he really knew what a product or service was supposed to be. It's hard to take more than 2 weeks of vacation at once without giving a lot of notice (say 4+ months). It's nearly impossible to take more than 3 weeks of earned vacation at once. HR, in my experience, is poorly managed and has high turnover. It took 3 months to get me an offer in 2005 and HR failed to give me an exit interview despite it being standard operating procedure.

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5.0
Jun 14, 2026
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Pros

Tons of pros such as the Environment, Flexibility, Management, and experience you can get! I was able to do school and work this position

Cons

Honestly I didnt not find any cons working here, very supportive and friendly experience overall!

4.0
Aug 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

Cons

ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just don't lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DON'T care

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