Hard Driving Culture in Need of a Reboot - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

3.0
Mar 31, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- work with smart, driven people - data-focused environment holds people and teams accountable - perks like doctors onsite, gyms, subsidized cafeterias, free bus transportation and concerts - relationship based, the more you have, the more successful you will be

Cons

- when you get to a high level at Apple, it's free reign - no one closely watching how rank and file are being managed - lack of professionalism with HR, if you disclose anything they are likely to tell your manager and/or do nothing, based on my experience - management always driving staff to do more but not always clear where or why - silos make organization hard to navigate; it takes at least a year to successfully onboard an employee

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5.0
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Pros

Comfortable and great company and culture, with flexible work life balance

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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