Apple reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(43,006 total reviews)
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Tim Cook

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43,006 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Apple employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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43K reviews
1.0
Apr 10, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Their pay is better than most company, but you have to work extremely long hours and weekend.

Cons

Zero work/life balance Unethical management. The manager in my department (Silicon Engineering Group) only cares what his/her boss thinks and try whatever possible to please his/her boss. They consistently made up stories/lies to make them good in front of others. If things go bad, they try their best to blame others and cover their fault. Nonfunctional HR. HR plays very weak role. Reporting management issues to HR does not help, instead the retaliation is what you can get.

5.0
Dec 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many of my friends from college work at Google and Facebook, and from my conversations I can honestly say that Apple values design more than any other tech company. Don't get me wrong, Google and Facebook (as well as a few other notable Silicon Valley corporations) have extremely high standards when it comes to design and user experience, but Apple takes it to a whole new level. They treat designers like royalty, and it shows in the products. As a software designer, I do feel highly valued at Apple. I do feel that I am doing great work. I do feel that I am more of an artist, a craftsman, than a developer. And I do feel that the long working hours pay off, not in cash but in the ability to look at the work I've done with my team and think to myself that this is what Picasso would use today. That's priceless. The 'climbing a ladder for prestigious positions' doesn't exist here because that's not what Apple stands for. The workers are here to design beautiful products together, and if everyone competes for meaningless position titles, the product quality worsens. That's why Apple doesn't really give a lot of freedom to move up.

Cons

Working at Google and Facebook and Twitter is probably better financially, and it probably delivers a lot less stress. That's excellent if you plan on having a family and spending time with your kids. I do have trouble managing time because I usually work overtime four to five times a week. Of course, this gets frustrating, but I love what I do, and so the extra work is never a reason to quit or complain. Secrecy is also a pain, as some of us even carry a wallet with half a dozen security badges. We are told multiple times a day that our work can never be discussed outside certain rooms, and in some cases we don't even know what were working on. For example, I had a project for a product that I had no idea about. I assumed it was a new version of iPad, but it ended up being for the brand new iPad mini. And I knew it was for the iPad mini on the same day the world was introduced to iPad mini. Yeah, that level of secrecy can really get annoying. But it also keeps things interesting ...

1.0
Aug 14, 2014

AHA - do not recommend

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Reasonable pay You get to work from home

Cons

Everything If you need help you do not get it If you transfer a call to a higher department your screamed at for high escalation If you aren't one of the managers favourites you can be certain you will have a bad time No matter how hard you try it's not good enough If you have time off medical certificates don't count towards anything and you will be terminated No sense of how mental health effects different people if you suffer from it and take time off you'll most likely be terminated Words twisted to the point your not even sure what you said to start with anymore

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