Apple Reviews in San Jose, CA Area

Pros

Work on very key aspects of products that are used by a lot of people. Compensation is good

Cons

Hours can be very long, you stay until things are done. Stress can also be very high due to aggressive schedules and high expectations. Office politics can be frustrating, especially across teams.

Advice to Senior Management

Office politics are a waste of productivity. I'd rather spend time on advancing products than pointing fingers at each other

Pros

Good money. Excellent benefit. People are very smart and work extremely hard. Nice environment as well. A great place for any level of employees.

Cons

Too busy and too many meetings. Not too much time to improve yourself. Schedule is tight and deadline is always there.

Advice to Senior Management

Wonderul management and great pay. Only thing needs to address is to have more fun and less stressful for every one. Have a better balance of work and life.

Pros

awesome reputation of course
experiences in an unstructured environment, space to move and make changes

Cons

lack of experienced middle level manager, making organic long-term development for the entire company is somehow hard.
company is more focus on R&D, other than robust supply chain.

Advice to Senior Management

take more time hone your management skill. People leave because of bad manager.

Pros

Work with stellar and deadly dedicated people on amazing products.
Learn what it is that makes Apple different.
Frequent opportunities to move to the project you like.
Receive broad and career changing visibility if you are able to do something great.
Forget longish and back breaking analysis work. It is acting by the seat of your pants that gets the job done in time and if you've really got the vibes, Apple is the place to be.
Enjoy good food and cool beer bashes.

Cons

With too many superstar, it's difficult to shine and sparkle. Everyone strives to get a rare chunk of management's attention, always. Coworkers are wisely behaving nice as only teamwork keeps you in the loop, which is so essential for survival at Apple. But don't be foolish. Everyone has her secret personal agenda.
Your boss will most likely be an accidentially promoted engineer, not a manager.
Good ideas are always welcome, but don't act surprised when yours are put down at first and later get presented by somebody else than you, in a meeting where you are not invited.
Be prepared to fight for your family life and against burn out, everyday.
Expectations and pressure can be almost unbearably high.
On a day where you decide to not work at night, everybody else on your team will and you will learn next morning that you have been blocking at least half of them.

Advice to Senior Management

Even though I feel that Apple is going to kill me in the long term, it's the greatest work place I've ever been part of. But there is tendencies towards too many keypoint slides and operatinal planning meetings. Don't lose your think different!

Pros

Great technology, great products, friendly and decicated colleages

Cons

Long commute, long ladder to climb up, long wait for conversion for contractors.

Pros

Satisfaction of working on some cool products
RSUs are nice initially

Cons

Some groups like IS&T have chosen to outsource the development process inside Cupertino to offshore companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Satyam. Many employees from here "manage" to become full time employees/managers who in turn recruit, promote such suckers. mainly Indian H1Bs.
Sycophancy is heavily promoted in the name of relationships. All isms maligning the India, such as nepotism, casteism, communitism can be seen for any keen observer, in some groups like IS&T.Got this direct from one of the directors, Apple values relationships more than knowledge and skills. Go figure!
Reviews are unfair. Managers protect themselves from getting evaluated, as there is no manager evaluation, whose main and sole goal is to work employees to death.Anyone complaining, is on the wrong end of the good review, even however superb their work has been.
Promotions are a mystery. Sycophants and con bodys whose real skill is politics are given prominence and eventually promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

What can I say, you are trying to compete with Google, with this kind of people? LOL! Some groups in IS&T are toxic.

Pros

it's Apple. Great technology, great products

Cons

Everything is a secret, very little communication. They keep pushing for more work. High stress, very little down time. Not a lot of opportunity for personal growth

Advice to Senior Management

Take a better care of your engineers, they're the one making your future products.

Pros

Great leadership within the company and customer arrive training in matched.

Cons

Hard I move from retail
To corp. you basically need to k ow someone.

Advice to Senior Management

Help your wmloyyes grow more and follow though with lead ship abilities

Pros

We get to work on the products that people have real emotional commitment to, and thats something amazing to be part of.

Cons

its a lot of work, and there is a lot of dues to pay before one should expect a promotion

Advice to Senior Management

As long as we continue to do what we are have for the last 14 years have been doing, we will continue to be a great company

Pros

Smart people, great people, great products. Everyone is very good at what they do. A lot of trust and independence given.

Cons

Not much of any downsides. Not enough space perhaps? Apple has grown so much that we have to double and triple up.

Advice to Senior Management

I think leadership is doing an amazing job. There is nothing much to add. We have the best management team anywhere.