Great products, but not a great place to work - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fabulous products that you can be proud of Some great colleagues (not all) If you're an engineer, great products to build If you're a designer, great products to design

Cons

Least empowering place I've ever worked - all decisions go upwards, great if you're Steve Jobs, but not so great for anyone else. Mediocre/poor performers are rarely fired. Incredibly siloed. Executives are so indoctrinated in the Apple way of doing things that they're not open to new approaches.

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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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