Feeling stuck and oppressed - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

3.0
11 Mar 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

My current position permits me to have a very flexible schedule, I basically set my own work schedule. It's nice having access to the latest gear from Apple as well as the myriad of software. My immediate management is excellent. Benefits and salary are good.

Cons

Working out of a home office can make you feel isolated. I also don't have a lot of opportunities to expand my professional network within the company, making professional advancement outside of my division next to impossible. To move up in my career path would require far more travel, which seems absolutely backwards. Our Marketing department is absurdly oppressive, I often feel that creativity is sought only from Engineering and Product Marketing while conformity is dictatorially and unkindly mandated elsewhere.

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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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