An extremely fulfilling life changing experience but with plenty of costs - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

4.0
May 24, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work on amazing products - Work with amazing people - Pride in the work that you do - Huge gain in professional knowledge - Experience makes you hirable anywhere else

Cons

- No work/life balance - No direct career paths - Average compensation (pre-stock) - Average to below-average perks - Having to deal with growing and encroaching bureaucracy

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4.0
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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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