Lonely, stressed, and overworked in a competitive environment - Technical Writer Apple Employee Review

3.0
19 Nov 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The cafe is amazing, even if it's not free. - Great equipment - standup/sit-down desk, machines for testing. - Smart co-workers who care about their job. No slackers. - Shuttle buses for transportation. - Bonuses for job well done.

Cons

- Meetings where you could cut the tension with a knife. - Profanity is okay at any time. - More work than can be done in a 40 hour work week. - If you're a woman and work in engineering, but you're not a programmer, be prepared to be lonely. - If you don't respond to emails received on nights and weekends, you're left behind. - Arrogant company culture. They expect you to treat your job like you're employee #10 in a start-up. - No work/life balance. - Dysfunctionally secretive. Little to no guidance to new employees. - Co-workers pass you in the hallway and don't acknowledge your existence. If you enjoy a competitive work environment where meetings get tense, and the company takes itself very seriously, with long hours, then you'll be okay.

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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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