Ideal place to work: cutting-edge innovation, enthusiastic and capable colleagues, enlightened management. - Senior Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

5.0
3 July 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The work is cutting-edge, fast paced and interesting, my colleagues are enthusiastic and capable and management is really excellent: mentors and leaders, not tyrants or bureaucrats. I noticed the difference in morale immediately when I first walked into the company. People looked relaxed and like they were having fun. Contrast with some of my previous companies where people were walking around with frozen faces or hunched over in cubicles; the atmosphere was like a labor camp. Give credit to the management at Apple: this high morale doesn't happen by accident. Managers here respect the engineers, and help them to get the job done. Questions are encouraged and ideas are rewarded. I've worked for enlightened managers in good teams in previous companies, but it never seemed to last: they lost out in the unending political infighting and they were soon replaced or their projects were disbanded. Here I see the exact opposite.

Cons

It makes me regret not having come here much earlier.

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4 June 2026
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Pros

Lots of opportunity. Best creative directors.

Cons

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4.0
28 Aug 2014
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Recommend
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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

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