Not treated with dignity, humanity, or respect - SDM Manager Apple Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great cafe, high compensation, nice equity price

Cons

- Managers suffering from mental instability or possibly on drugs - Brown nosing definitely superior to intelligent work - Very long hours and weekends, most job roles outside of engineering mind numbingly dull, a CEO who demands work before 6am everyday, & "accountability without control" (that's one of the core values they teach in Apple University management classes btw -- it's Apple culture to get screamed at for things that are beyond your control). - Verbal abuse and intimidating workplace the norm -- everybody craps on somebody while getting crapped on by somebody else - Internal infrastructure (basically everything IS&T builds) constantly breaking, management solution to scream at underlings without fixing root causes or problems - Avoid at all costs unless you really need to money, like getting abused, or God forbid want to work someplace where you're expected to abuse your reports into mindless submission

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