Apple Japan: Do not work here! - Director Apple Employee Review

1.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Location in the center of Tokyo

Cons

Cold, horrible place to work, especially for non-Japanese. Management is toxic. The "in" group is comprised of individuals that have worked at Apple Japan for 15 - 25 years; if you are hired mid-career, expect to be treated as an outsider. The skills you develop working at Apple Japan will be largly organizational and political; you won't be able to transfer skills to any other role or organization. For mid-career hires, Apple is a waste of your time and energy. Salary and benefits are mediocre at best, and certainly not worth bearing the constant harassment from management.

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Cons

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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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