Siloed, movement nearly impossible, cheap - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

3.0
Aug 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

High quality products. Everyone who works at apple is really high caliber at their job. Usually you get thanksgiving week off.

Cons

No free lunch, no free gym, no free drinks, political hierarchies flourish. Upward mobility is almost non-existant. Moving from one team to another is rarely allowed. Employees are strictly forbidden to develop iOS apps. The pay is not great. Stock share grants are reserved for people above you. As far as internal support goes, IS&T wants to help you, but really can't turn the ship too much. Take a number, get in line, see you in a year if they can help you; probably not. It's not their fault, it's just a gigantic slow moving company now.

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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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