Great peers; clueless leadership - Manager Apple Employee Review

1.0
Oct 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Peers; you'll feel like you're working with your favorite cousins and best friends. Compensation is better than average.

Cons

Leadership; most of the leaders were promoted during a time when tenure determined your role and not ability. What's more, most of them have never worked anywhere else to know that the way they do things is outdated and prevents process improvements. They often celebrate those that did the basic duties of their job and ignore those who deliver measurable value far beyond the expectations of their job descriptions. The company also traps employees by giving them these amazing RSU packages that vest twice yearly over four years. A tenured manager who leaves could easily forfeit over $500k in unvested stocks, so people stay beyond what mental health professionals consider healthy.

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Cons

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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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