Pros
The friends you make among your coworkers really is the biggest thing that keeps you around. I have some of the greatest friends on my team and the thought of leaving that behind makes me sad. Great health/dental benefits and tuition reimbursement. It sucks because I go to a private art school and Apple doesn’t recognize this as education so I can’t be reimbursed for tuition which is a joke. I’m spending just as much if not more money than public education students at a university.
Cons
Work-life balance is SO off balance. Apple claims to promote a healthy work-life balance and they don’t show anything for it. I hate the way requesting time off works because if other employees requested time off months in advance for the same day you try to get off the month you’re wanting it off, you’re screwed because the threshold of people who requested that day off is met. Every. Time. This makes you look bad as an employee because it forces you to call out just so you can get away from the work environment and give yourself a vacation you deserve. The work gets monotonous. Apple claims that they believe in giving feedback to better the work place but when you give it no behavior is ever changed. The managers aren’t terribly helpful and you are micromanaged. Apple is the first US company to make it to 1 trillion dollars and you sure don’t feel it as an employee. They don’t give you free access to Apple Music as an employee, they give you nothing but a water bottle for Christmas and make you attend meetings quarterly on Sundays which are a day of worship for many employees. The ability to move in the company is impossible and if you do want to move up in the company you have to butt kiss your managers because it’s all just a big popularity contest in terms of getting promoted to a better higher paying position. If these things changed then this would be an amazing place to work.