Great company at the highest level, lots of politics at the bottom - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

2.0
Mar 9, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great opportunity to advance your career very quickly if you know how to play the right politics. Competent senior level management (Steve Jobs does deserve the best CEO award), very disciplined, focused and well managed company.

Cons

Very fast paced work environment, beware of backstabbing, very long work hours. Being a good engineer does not necessarily get you recognition, knowing how to play politics and make yourself look good relative to your peers is most important. Too secretive, sometimes it's hard to get the whole picture for a project you're working on.

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4.0
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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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