Apple reviews

Work-life balance is SO off balance. Apple claims to promote a healthy work-life balance and they don’t show anything for it. I hate the way requesting time off works because if other employees requested time off months in advance for the same day you try to get off the month you’re wanting it off, you’re screwed because the threshold of people who requested that day off is met. Every. Time. This makes you look bad as an employee because it forces you to call out just so you can get away from the work environment and give yourself a vacation you deserve. The work gets monotonous. Apple claims that they believe in giving feedback to better the work place but when you give it no behavior is ever changed. The managers aren’t terribly helpful and you are micromanaged. Apple is the first US company to make it to 1 trillion dollars and you sure don’t feel it as an employee. They don’t give you free access to Apple Music as an employee, they give you nothing but a water bottle for Christmas and make you attend meetings quarterly on Sundays which are a day of worship for many employees. The ability to move in the company is impossible and if you do want to move up in the company you have to butt kiss your managers because it’s all just a big popularity contest in terms of getting promoted to a better higher paying position. If these things changed then this would be an amazing place to work.

- Clueless middle management interferes too much and changes the scope of the work leading to frustration - Favoritism in all forms is very prevalent, the favorites get the best projects, tasks, opportunities and visibility while the rest are made to slave away for the cause of betterment of the managers and their favorites - QA gets treated very badly and most of the time it’s because of the middle management who volunteer their engineers for all kinds of tasks out of scope from traditional QA roles - Promotions are based on favoritism rather than by performance or value added - Management is solely focused on kingdom building and this has resulted in lax hiring - No respect is given to truly knowledgeable people , promotion is only given to people who can talk loudly even though it’s just empty noise - HR will always side with the management and you will get screwed during the review process if you rub anyone in management the wrong way