Eventually must be comfortable being part of a machine - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

5.0
4 Jan 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The most inspirational work you can ever hope to find. Facilities and environment is fantastic. Support to employees is phenomenal. 401k matching, Health, educational services are bar none. Regular grants in cash and RSUs for performance. Staying at the company long-term has phenomenal benefits. Co-workers are all highly motivated interesting individuals who are often a great pleasure to be around and learn from. Everybody is (generally) happy and proud to be there, to do the work they do.

Cons

As with any company, not all work is purely inspirational and awesome. Eventually there will be monotonous drudge work. Eventually there will be politics and they may not play to you. This is to be expected with any company, especially a large company. Part of the magic of apple is that there are many autonomous groups. Your experience at Apple will depend largely on which group you find yourself in. There are great groups, and there are not-so-great groups. You may or may not find all of the bad situations you may imagine or have encountered elsewhere within these groups. You may not have much recourse against it, short of risky politics of going over your boss. HR typically does not engage in low level politics and primarily exists to protect the company from lawsuits (as with any large company).

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Cons

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4.0
28 Aug 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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