Interesting work, but very difficult to get promoted to director level - Senior Manager Apple Employee Review

3.0
Aug 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I have done the best work of my career.

Cons

Unless you have a private understanding with your manager before you join, you will likely not be promoted to higher levels. Career development is reserved only for the chosen few and not made explicit. Opportunities to grow by changing teams is much more limited that at most large companies, because the managers see movement as disloyalty rather than a natural outcome of having no clear career development promotion path.

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Great communication and will really help you and guide you during training

Cons

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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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