Great place to learn, then move on - Operations Product Manager Apple Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great products and new technology to work with - Learn to leverage Apple's huge supply chain influence to get what you want quickly - Business class travel and 5-star hotels

Cons

- Extremely flat at the top, execs make almost all of the decisions - Promotions are very few - Poor feedback from the management team - 60-80 work week is the norm, not the exception - 2-3x per quarter in China, expected to go to every Engineering built, even if to just sit in the factory "in-case" something goes wrong - Organized chaos, everyone does their own thing to get the job done. No structure - Salary/benefits are below market average, and yearly compensation is getting worse every year I've been here

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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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