Great products and people, subpar project scheduling and pay - Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

4.0
17 June 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Best products in the industry, period. You'll feel the envy of the industry working here. Highly talented, interesting, motivated coworkers that will drive you to learn & create. A place that you're proud to tell people you work. Excellent perks for commuters.

Cons

Often unrealistic project schedules lead to semi-permanent crunch mode. Unproductive employees can carve out a niche and stick around way too long without contributing- this leeches from morale. Caffe Macs is largely mediocre, although it has seen some improvements as of late. Compensation and bonuses are uninspiring because they know you don't want to work anywhere else, which is understandable but still unfortunate.

Explore other reviews about Apple

5.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great team! You are given the opportunity to learn and grow super fast

Cons

None really that I have seen

4.0
28 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

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

1500
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All