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      4.1

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (43,118 total reviews)
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      Tim Cook

      86% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

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      Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43,118 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Apple employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      43K reviews
      1.0
      Feb 16, 2016

      AHA Not All It's Cracked Up To Be

      Applecare at-home advisor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Working from home -Occasionally get 45-60 minute blocks of time off phones for training. Can often do a quick load of laundry or watch Netflix while doing trainings -Moderately lenient with call offs -Customers mostly aren't completely horrible people -Pay is good for a call center job -Discount is great: 25% off all the time, plus $500 off a Mac (excluding Mac Mini) or unlocked iPhone, $250 off an iPad, OR $150 off iPad Mini once every 3 years

      Cons

      -Don't kid yourself, this is a call center job. A cushy one, but still a call center -Lower management can be somewhat unorganized, but from my experience it wasn't always their fault -Metrics to hit can be somewhat ridiculous unless you are ok with skimming on the experience in some cases -Reaching out to other departments for help/assistance is sometimes met with resistance from people who don't want to do their job -If you work from home, the only upward mobility is to Tier 2 or management/trainers. You will be in a customer facing position most likely unless you want to work in Austin, TX or Cupertino, CA

      3.0
      Dec 13, 2015

      Software engineers beware

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      High quality products. Chock full of smart people. Excellent free shuttle service. Great food at reasonable prices. Most people think it's cool that you work at Apple. The spaceship is coming soon. You might end up in it.

      Cons

      Open seating for pretty much everyone below director. Mildly cultish. Despite "honest communication" being a primary value, it doesn't really happen. There is a lot hush-hush, especially about problems. Too much deference to management, especially with the run-up in stock price which leads to too much fear of asking the hard questions. Because hardware is the primary focus, there is a cultural lack of understanding about how software development works, which is almost universally frustrating to software engineers.

      3.0
      May 21, 2015

      Not much recreation options

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Stocks offered at the time of Offer are huge. Stock purchase plan is also good.

      Cons

      - No TT/Ping Pong, foosball, or other recreation options in any campus except may be the one building - Silent, dull environment, with everyone just simply doing their work and like robots. - Much like a big professional corporate, no startup culture (though in the induction, they say they still work like a startup - that's completely false) - 401K contribution is very less for the starting, unlike companies like Intuit which give 125% contribution right from the start - Gym is nice but joining takes time. And Gym is not free like other companies. - Cafetaria is not as great as companies like LinkedIn, Intuit, Netflix - and not even close to Google, Facebook.

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