A good place to have on your resume, but move on or out quickly. Politics rule here. - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

1.0
Apr 8, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Get early info on product releases and plans. Get to be in the reality distortion field and understand how it works.

Cons

Poor management and development of employees. Politics rule who gets a promotion and who works on interesting assignments, even if the idea originated from someone else. A friend of mine was forced to leave after his bosses best friend was fired from another team. They had no extra headcount so his boss made mistakes and blamed them on him so he could be fired, and then replaced him with his friend. HR wouldn't do anything about it when they were told what happened. Similar stories abound there, and makes people want to leave.

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Good colleagues, supportive team environment, strong engineering culture, and good opportunities to learn and grow technically.

Cons

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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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