great salary, terrible day-to-day - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

2.0
Nov 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great salary and very little work. I was given work that I could complete in about 4 hours/week, yet paid for 40. I constantly asked for more responsibility and more projects, but it was never granted. Unfortunately it left me feeling like I was being paid to sit on my hands.

Cons

Highly demoralizing atmosphere. Everyone I knew and worked with was deeply depressed. There was virtually no room for advancement (though I got great reviews and salary/stock bumps each year). Everyone is so scared of the senior management and middle mgmt is terrified to take risks.

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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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