Lots of potential, but stuck in the past - Senior Staff Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

3.0
Oct 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent offices, good cafe, good pay, decent work life balance, interesting problems to solve, if you can get to do them.

Cons

Extreme (and largely useless) secrecy makes it difficult to get anything done. The "Apple way" of doing things is by plucking some people from separate teams that specialize in something and sort of mushing them together as a virtual team. This has its advantages and disadvantages. Advantage: those teams can really deeply specialize in a narrow sub-field, and as such deliver insights and results that generalists can't deliver. You can see this in Apple products every day. Disadvantage: this works only on the hardware side. On the software side, I would much rather have teams of capable generalists working on products, but with the ability (and requirement) to reach out to specialists when needed. That'd work way better than "Apple way" works today.

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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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