High morale, great people but stressful work - Operations/Projects Apple Employee Review

4.0
Jan 30, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

High Morale overall. Competent and respectful Senior Management.Products you can be very proud of.

Cons

Work/Life balance is hard to achieve. Stressful work at a high pace as company was / is growing so much. People there are extremely smart and you have to keep up with high standards all the time. Too many undefined processes with various departments involved ( you often can't speak or understand their 'language' - technical), and no training is available for learning the processes (it's all hands-on. Can't really figure out with common sense either as processes are highly technical. ) If you don't have a technical background, you may be lost.

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5.0
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Pros

I am inspired by the technical expertise I see at the leadership level. People are collaborative. And the work is really interesting.

Cons

Some business operations processes are not built for scale, causing a lot of wasted effort

4.0
Aug 28, 2014
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Recommend
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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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