Work hard play hard - Software Engineer II Apple Employee Review

4.0
Feb 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

At Apple you will work with a lot of really intelligent people (I worked with the guy who made AirDrop!) and they really strive to create the highest quality products. Their campus is beautiful and they're very progressive

Cons

On the other hand, they're very work hard play hard. I was struggling at work, so I ended up pulling 12 hour days and it was very demanding. My boss would not give me help to learn the architecture even though I asked and in general I was micromanaged. The culture was too intense for me so I had to leave, but I think this could definitely just be my individual manager

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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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