Smart, self-directed employees; great culture; occasionally disruptive reorgs - Manager Apple Employee Review

4.0
Sep 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Getting to work with smart people is great. Most people are self-starters who are driven to accomplishment and Apple culture reinforces that drive. In some teams resources are easy to get as long as you provide the product or customer focused justification.

Cons

Deep reorganization within a group did not consider the skills of the smaller teams or individuals well. If you are used to being a big fish in a smaller pond, you'll need to become skilled at suppressing your ego. Annual review process having only 3 levels and then adjusting those from upper management to 'balance' is insulting to the excellent people on my team; however, compensation is a much better received.

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4.0
Aug 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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