Great experience, but not what it used to be - Senior Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

4.0
29 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Incredible opportunity to work on the world's best products and most of the people really care about the product. It was a lot of fun to see how the world's most admired company works behind the scenes. If you have a good manager, you can go pretty far, pretty quick. Compensation and PTO is very fair for Silicon Valley. The culture is very design and user experience driven which may seem obvious, but you should feel the same way before joining. Sometimes sacrifices in the technical implementation are made because it provides a better user design.

Cons

My main complaint is that it gets repetitive after a few years, specifically working on the OS side, you just feel like it's the same cycle-driven work year in and year out. Work life balance can be tough, especially leading up to major OS releases. The hybrid schedule is nice, but the in office days force you to commute to/from Cupertino to sit in online meetings. I put a low score for DEI because there is not a huge representation of underserved minorities in tech. That becomes apparent from day one on campus, despite what the values are of the company.

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5.0
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Pros

Enhances multitasking skills, learn to communicate with people that have different perspectives

Cons

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4.0
28 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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