They won't lay you off but working for them sucks - Senior Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stable, they likely won't lay you off. Business is going great. Pay is good (but other tech companies pay better)

Cons

Very secretive and that can affect your career: you won't know of important projects unless someone likes you enough to get you approved to know about them. That means that impactful projects can remain out of reach forever. This also leads to a lot of unhealthy competitiveness between employees and an altogether toxic workplace culture. You reinvent the wheel all the time, Since no one shares code with other parts of the company, there's very little shared infra, which means you end up rewriting common frameworks and stuff like that. Benefits are below the tech industry average, very little vacation time. They don't cover a lot of medications and every year coverage is diminishing. As a non-American the company feels very unwelcoming. I've even heard people complain about others' grammar and that's just discriminatory to those of us not educated in english as a native language. They have breaks that are centered around american holidays (christmas and thanksgiving) but that doesn't help those of us who dont celebrate those. If you come from abroad it will be hard to visit family when working for apple

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5.0
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Pros

Great communication and will really help you and guide you during training

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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