Apple reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,062 total reviews)
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Tim Cook

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 43,062 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
3.0
Sep 25, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will work with very smart people. Advance peek into some of the new technologies the world is raving about. Possible to stick to 9-5 working hours most of the time - productivity is achieved more through discipline than raw time.

Cons

Candidates beware - most Java development jobs at Apple are actually SRE jobs with 24/7 pager rotation, multiple conference calls on Thanksgiving and Christmas and management taking it for granted that you have to promptly answer phone calls every time of day or night. Now, production monitoring jobs obviously have their place and are necessary in every company. Generally speaking, those should be non-exempt positions that pay overtime and give time off for extra hours. In Apple, it is more like software engineers are expected to work an uncompensated second job with no recognition or benefits. But most importantly, a company must be as honest and upfront about the nature of each job as a candidate is expected to be about his/her skills. Instead both myself and candidates who were considered after me were actively misled about need to be on-call or spend months manually installing software rather than writing code. This is really a classless act for the worlds richest software company that takes pride in its image and could easily afford to hire extra people to do production support on sane terms. I should also add that Apple has the most dysfunctional internal transfer process I have seen in my life. I don't blame you if you still want to work on iOS after reading this review, but beware that you will NOT be able to take some other position and then transfer to iOS after building up internal creds. If you work for Apple, but have skills and desire to work on actual Apple products rather than backend, you must quit Apple first.

2.0
Aug 21, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great products and listening to positive stories from customer's experiences with Apple.

Cons

Call centre mentality and overall very low morale, where colleagues would not greet or include newcomers due to old conflicts (nothing to do with myself) with Management. Boy's club attitude which affected the professional atmosphere in a negative way , as well as whole-team scare-tactics when Management felt it necessary to punish under-performing individuals.

4.0
Aug 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Empowered to make big business decisions even at the lowest level within the company. Every company has red tape, but Apple seems to have a lot less of it. GREAT management (how often do you hear that).You get to work on the most interesting and state of the art consumer products, and once you're here it really drives you... Since you see the direct result of your hard work. Despite the secrecy legend, I think Apple does a good job at letting employees see the big picture because it enables folks to be more effective. They really make you feel special with excellent compensation, shuttles that navigate thru brutal silicon valley traffic, etc. that being said this is an extremely expensive area to live, so it's not going to be easy to find an affordable place to purchase .... But renting is no issue.

Cons

I think because of the strict work schedules (ie, working from home is frowned upon) combined with the brutal amount of work and hours you need to put in here this is a really burnout job where your health and personal life will be severely challenged. Most of the people in Ops are new for a reason. Management knows it is an issue but "can't seem to figure out how to solve it" which in a nutshell means they are sympathetic but unwilling to do anything real about it. Your work and personal life will know no boundaries... Except calls daily during dinner with the family, don't try and go see a movie after work, calls at night with Asia teams, and never feel like you can "unplug" . High Stress.

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