Cool yet ruthless - Director Apple Employee Review

2.0
Apr 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

If you're looking for the cool factor, Apple is a great place to be. It can be fun to say you work for Apple.

Cons

Apple takes pride in keeping things confidential and this has huge marketing impact for them. Product releases are treated as news. The problem is that everything is confidential inside the organization too, which means its hard to get the information you need to do your job. It's also a pretty ruthless place to work, with non-stop urgent deadlines and little appreciation for your work.

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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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