Cliquish, cultish, toxic - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

1.0
Mar 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I'll start off saying that one's experience can vary a lot from group to group. So don't take these pros or cons as necessarily applying to all of corporate. It only represents my personal experience. * Not a whole lot of red-tape or bureaucracy getting in the way of getting things done. * Work-life balance reasonable.

Cons

* Cultish in that you have to be eagerly awaiting every single new release of an Apple product. If not, you kinda get looked down on. * Can be cliquish. * People had a tendency to talk negatively behind others' backs. Can get toxic.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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