My best employer so far - Firmware Engineer Apple Employee Review

5.0
24 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Self-driven work environment - Very good managers with in-depth technical knowledge and hands-on attitude - Hands-on work environment, everyone (including managers) must actively contribute to the product design and implementation - Very efficient work environment with minimum communication and bureaucratic overhead - Extremely fast decision making, not always consensus driven - Very good salary and large RSU (stock) grants

Cons

- Need-to-know policy, you are very concentrated on your component and not aware what colleagues in the other teams are working on. - Long working hours with evening meetings across time zones - Depending on your project, you might be working during long hours on your own with relatively few interactions with other teammates.

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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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