Apple reviews

Ancient technology stack that will leave your technical skills in atrophy. Lack of uniform direction or leadership in the company, the amount of pivoting makes it difficult to accomplish anything longterm. Huge expectation differences between SREs and developers with regard to best practices. Complete lack of remote work flexibility, all employees must be in overcrowded offices most days of the week leading to lack of parking, long lines for bathrooms and cafeteria, no conference room availability, and cramped workspaces

-Toxic environment amongst peers leads to constant negative exchanges on Slack, iMessage, etc. and a lack of respect for your personal boundaries - Command and control culture where executives are put on pedestals for topics they are not experts in, while actual experts' opinions are frequently suppressed -Company mantra is "do what's best for Apple" which plays out as secrecy and mistrust amongst your own colleagues and a serious lack of opportunities for external / public engagement -No time for developing new skills due to constant desperation from stakeholders -Extreme turnover leading to complex projects and tools changing hands multiple times. Nonetheless, there is an expectation that the whoever takes over can immediately speak to disorganized, poorly passed down work at an executive level -Unsustainable number of "pre-flights" and scripted rehearsals for interactions with Director and above - as an individual contributor, you can expect to routinely have 3-5 (or more) pre-meetings before all leadership meetings. This makes it nearly impossible to keep up with the individual contributor workload.