Former Manager - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

3.0
1 Oct 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very good job satisfaction, high performing stocks, challenging work.

Cons

The review is entirely about IT. Very political environment. Lots of back stabbing/finger pointing. Fearful/threatening environment, incompetent middle management who drive away good talent for political sake, no room to make mistakes which kills creativity. Upper management / HR is very arrogant as the company is doing extremely well. Not so great compensation/poor benefits compared to many other big companies in the Silicon valley. Upper management is always trying to please the executives and in turn forget to respect employees. Poor people management skills in the middle management. Inexperienced directors.

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Cons

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