Surprise and delight means opacity and hierarchy - Program Manager Apple Employee Review

4.0
10 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Clear roles and expectations, templates for doing things, highly skilled coworkers, user focused. Impacts a billion people.

Cons

Can't talk to people about what you do, including many coworkers who are not disclosed on the same things. Extremely normcore. Focuses on individual brilliance over building together.

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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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