Good place to work on cool products, bad for work/life balance - Hardware Engineer Apple Employee Review

3.0
Jul 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Work on cool products -Good place to start a career -Little red-tape for a company its size -Things get done, there is a lot of focus

Cons

-Not good for work/life balance -Low pay compared to other companies -Low bonuses -Lots of reorganizations -Schedules that are too aggressive and unreachable make people cynical/disillusioned -Lots of politics

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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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