Kafka-esque Bureaucracy - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

2.0
Jan 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good (but no where industry leading) overall comp. Work with passionate and talented engineers who care. Industry leading hardware organization. Company is focused on diversity.

Cons

Software (as opposed to Hardware) groups are, on the whole, generally broken. Engineers are not empowered. Top down/EPM-driven culture. Management only "manages up" and does not take care of their own teams. Byzantine security culture which adds 50% overhead to almost every daily activity. Every engineer is basically island. Expect almost no support from anyone. It's impossible to actually get anything done, nor is it possible to "do the right thing". Diversity push (which is genuine), does not extend to 'senior' people. The more experience you have, the fewer opportunities you get.

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Cons

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4.0
Aug 28, 2014
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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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