Patchy, but generally OK - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

excellent products, large emphasis on design and branding. second-rate is not acceptable and being an industry leader in digital music sales and product design is something that everyone is very proud of. People tend to be friendly and extremely intelligent, with a great work ethic at a very young age. Almost everyone works at what they love doing. Also Apple is good about shifting you to other parts of the company if you aren't happy. They want to keep employees.

Cons

the process of getting to the final product is gruelling and inefficient. Lots of politics leading to strange partnerships and promotions based not on quality but on starstruck management caving to external parties.not paid as well as other companies in Silicon Valley, with long hours, never really being "off" work, strange management hierarchy… iTunes in particular seems to be chaotic and suffers from a noticeable lack of competent management on the upper levels, with a lot of grandfathering-in of people with no music industry background and promotions seemingly based solely on seniority and random luck.

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4.0
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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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