Great team and lower management, but poor middle and upper management - ASIC Design Engineer Apple Employee Review

4.0
Oct 8, 2024
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Pros

-Almost all of the engineers I worked with were great, and teams worked well both amongst themselves and between orgs -Pretty good pay for hardware engineering roles -No micromanagement of responsibilities; I was given the leeway to independently prioritize tasks and implement improvements.

Cons

-Out of touch upper-management, which often makes decisions to the detriment of those that work under them -Unreasonable and paternal return to office mandates, where your direct manager get's scolded by their boss if the employees on his team don't badge into the office on the prescribed 3 days per week. -Large company, so the scope of work for any given engineer is relatively narrow.

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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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