Great products, damaging culture - Software Engineer IV Apple Employee Review

4.0
Dec 12, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Work on world-changing products that have great design and strong technology. - Very talented people that know their stuff. - Good benefits.

Cons

- Culture of secrecy for the sake of secrecy is extremely damaging. - Impossible or extremely difficult to build your career through public presentations / publications, open-source, etc. - Very ad-hoc and poor software engineering practices and support systems.

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