Great place to work if you don't have kids! - Marketing Specialist Apple Employee Review

5.0
Apr 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart people to work with, great pay and benefits--you can essentially carve your own niche if you have enough ambition and can work with the right people to get where you want to go. You will have to put in LOTS of extra hours, but travel opportunities abound and if you are not limited by family obligations and have extraordinary drive, you can go as far as you want to go. I met a number of extraordinary people there, some who will be friends for life. The informal Apple alumni network has also been extremely valuable in my post-Apple life.

Cons

Long hours, poor work/life balance. If you have small children or other family obligations that limit your hours to the typical 9 to 5, this is not the company for you. That mindset is typical for Silicon Valley, however.

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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?

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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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