Apple IS&T, toxic place, not actually Apple - App Developer Apple Employee Review

1.0
Apr 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You get Apple on your resume. Engineers are nice for the most part.

Cons

Apple IS&T is the worst, most toxic environment at Apple. When you work here, you do not really work for Apple, you are like outsiders. It is truly scary that a place like this can exist at a company like Apple. You should not join. Good people cannot fix broken environments. The place is broken because of legacy culture from the top. They will make it sound nice and paint a nice picture with words, but once you get there, you will realize you are trapped in a bait and switch, career suicide. They could get sued for this. Many managers are mean, incompetent, or aggressive slave drivers. Stay away.

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4.0
Aug 28, 2014
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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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