Apple reviews

—management. Good ones are hard to find, and even more difficult to transfer to. Often, job openings are due to people quitting a manager so people coming in don’t have a clue to what situation they’re stepping into. —Highly political culture. Very siloed. GSM and Capex community is particularly difficult to work with. Some PD groups are legendary for being difficult to work with. —turnover is high. —People are highly educated, but sometimes don’t possess good engineering common sense. Endless funding and a faux accountability structure insulates people with amazing pedigrees but poor engineering judgement. —people are good at shifting blame, covering tracks, and overall bending the optics so that they look good regardless of outcome. More often than not, other cross functional groups and people are “thrown under the bus.” —most positions are support. i.e. you’re most likely working on someone else’s vision or idea, whether you’re in product development or operations. —engineering is mostly execution based. You are most likely going to spend endless hours to prove out ideas based on ID’s whim and managers behest. This can be deeply frustrating for creative people. —career advancement poor. You were hired to turn a crank and that crank you. shall. turn. —it is a political place to work. Worth mentioning twice...

The worst company I have ever worked for. Maybe if you work with with their core business in hardware this may still be the company you think it is. If you are anywhere in the administrative side all I can tell you is run away! They hire very incompetent upper management who create a horrible work culture. It takes you at least 30 days to schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist in Austin and if you ask them why it's because they are full of the Apple employees who are trying not to lose their minds! Even the doctors on campus will admit that they can't believe the amount of employees who suffer chronic stress issues because of the work culture. My advice is simple, if you have ambition and seek to grow in a successful career, run as far as you can from Apple. If you are a more relaxed person who only cares about getting a paycheck maybe you should consider it. This is the type of place that makes you regret getting a promotion. Every time you go up the latter you are exposed to more and more incompetence until you want to throw your iMac out the window! There is no respect for employees, no effort in providing what is needed for the job they ask you to do. Everyone is expected to deal with enormous amounts of ambiguity simply because they don't want to spend the money on clarifying anything. The internal tools are by far the worst I have had to use. Your hair will fall as the system crashes constantly and management refuses to spend the money on decent software. While I was an hourly employee we had to use a software to punch in and out except the tool would always break when you were trying to leave. It still baffles me how a company with as much money as Apple treats their employees as second class citizens compared to their customers. I regret spending just under 4 years of my career in this madhouse. Bragging rights are not worth it! Keep your barista job along with your sanity. They also discriminate with Texas employees and offer a crappy version of the healthcare they offer in California. California employees get a much better deal with Kaiser. Texas get crappy healthcare that will leave you owing hundreds every time you actually need to use it.