Here are the bad things - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

1.0
Apr 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, great benefits and you have Apple on your resume.

Cons

Reviews are accurate, all of the bad ones at least. They use a lot of OFFSHORE contractors, and high percentage are not good, same for the managers, they used to be not so good contractors and are managers now. Is not usually bad to use contractors due to the flexibility of scale up and down on people, but when you have 5 employees and 15 contractors and they just come and go, you don't really have that flexibility, it's the same 15 positions but filled but people that are taken to extreme burn out and writing code and creating designs worst than recent grads. Engineer quality is the worst I've ever seen in my life overall with 18 YOE. Are there good folks there? Yes, absolutely, but when you have 5 employees and 15 contractors and 50% suck and are OFFSHORE in India on a completely different timezone you are in for a mess and a career hara-kiri. Unless you are making much less than the current TC offered, I would advise against it. It doesn't matter the team, trust me on that, I have experienced and interacted with several teams, it's all the same. If TC is significantly higher take it, and leave soon to similar paying company. I'm looking for my way out. All the contractors are from Tata Consulting and Infosys, those guys are suffering and being exploited. 100% of the people I've interacted with are Indians, diversity is 0%, it's incredible, you feel like you are in India yourself, never seem this in my life and I've worked in all the MAGAF.

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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?

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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