Stay away from SDM at all cost - Supply Demand Planner Apple Employee Review

- zero work life balance; day is spent in meetings over meetings and real tasks can be completed after 4pm so your day never finishes at 4:30 / 5pm as per your expected work hours - management will create a panic over any query / issue that arises and whatsapp you over the weekend to fix issues or message you on your day off for input / slides - no task will be completed without your manager double checking every single forecast you come up with as they don't trust your abilities and love to micromanage people - when highlighting how bad direct management is to their superior, they just mask it as the employees fault, which means you are now "black listed" as difficult - when you point out all the things you've done and how well you performed, managers will backtrack and say they never said the things they did and you "misunderstood" - they are also very biased towards Irish people and any expat will have to work twice as hard to see any recognition meanwhile you have to complete the unconscious Bias training on a yearly basis - Apple will hire people above your pay grade with less experience and put them into senior positions, which means you will train them, do their work and yours meanwhile getting paid less and having to work harder to prove your senior status - when you try to move departments to escape your management, your application might be blocked by said management and you'll be given excuses about you not meeting the requirements even though you are a native speaker and in fact the only person, who speaks the language they are looking for and already working with the team and knowing the job inside out - when you are out sick prior your resignation because of the bad management and inflicted stress, the company will mask it as you leaving because of "personal reasons", not in fact because of the bad management you have endured - while you are out sick, senior management will also gossip about your absence on the floor and ask your friends about your whereabouts - people will resign in SDM every 2 weeks due to bad management and there are no investigations being done by HR as everything will be covered up as "resigning due to personal reasons" - on your last day you won't even get a message from your manager then because they take it as personal offense, that you dare to leave their team and they won't be participating in your leaving present either even though you might have done them favours by constantly working over time to complete their ridiculous asks, then dropping them home as the last bus would have left and asking them occasionally for coffee to make the transition into a new city easier, but of course they will be too petty to contribute even 20Euro after all this :)