Company with zero empathy and engineering best practices - Site Reliability Engineer Apple Employee Review

1.0
30 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Name. Pay (if you negotiate well and have competing offers from companies like Facebook, google, etc. Apple discounts. Stable and promising stock.

Cons

If you’re a software engineer this isn’t a place to be. The work life balance is not existent for very bad reasons. That’s only because you won’t be able to use or build tools that can make your life easier. The over culture is very bureaucratic and there’s literally no check on the bad managers. In my experience they don’t care about teams success and there interests lie elsewhere. Few of them are downright psychotic - foster toxic environment, bullying, threatening, etcetera. Very, very hard to move internally. You have to let you current manager know before you make a contact with the future Hiring managers. The toxic managers may block your move if you don’t play ball despite having good reviews. The benefits are awful as compared to other large tech companies. Heck even start-ups! You get 11 days PTO for working the whole year. They do have Christmas shutdown but everyone is forced to work to hit the deadlines that follow after the shutdown.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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