Apple reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,072 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 43,072 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
2.0
Mar 22, 2016

Smart People; Horrendous Hierarchy

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Pros

I worked for the internal marketing team (MarCom) on the creative side. The best thing about working at Apple is your coworkers. They do an excellent job of hiring incredibly intelligent, talented people. It's quite humbling to work alongside such accomplished people. You'll always feel like the dumbest person in the room, which is great because everyone has so much to teach you. Most of them are ego-free (about 70% of them) and will help you whenever possible. There are so many personality types, though nearly all of them are perfectionist Type A people. If that is your kind of crew, you'll do well. The work usually comes in waves. When you're on, you're all the way on. For weeks at a time you can expect late nights and no weekends. On the flip side, when it's slow, it's very slow. You can often work from home or take comp days. During downtimes it is not uncommon to go in for five hours including a long lunch and then go home. In addition to this, the compensation is good. The stock program is okay. But the pay is more than fair and their annual reviews pretty much guarantee a raise, bonus, and/or more stock. Finally, Tim Cook seems like a genuinely good person. Even in the relatively short time he's been in his role, he has made enormous leaps to give that company a real set of values that are current with this generation. He feels like a real human being, which is something Apple desperately needs.

Cons

Creatively speaking, this place is hellish. They hire people to do one job and one job only. Great creative happens when you're exposed to a lot of different projects and people, not in a vacuum. Apple will make you sit in your sandbox and churn out a huge amount of work for a single thing. And don't you dare look at someone else's sandbox. They live by the phrase "individual contributor". It's not collaborative in the least. This creates a giant divide between creative teams and roles, a divide that can be frustrating, isolating, and overwhelming. On top of that the management style and structure is a disaster. Prepare for massive insecurity, nitpicking, micromanagement, unrealistic expectations, information silos, finger-pointing, miscommunication between management titles, and all the unfortunately awful qualities so often associated with the dreaded "middle management". Meanwhile the people at the top, who could actually effect change, have earned the right to be blissfully unaware. There are too many people in leadership positions who have been at Apple entirely too long and have little or no experience with other creative work environments. They are stale, ignorant, and arrogant.

2.0
Feb 21, 2016
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Pros

Able to home work. Able to do other things while working. Save gas, babysitting, dog sitting and eating out costs.

Cons

Apple new standards to help customers is very robotic. Survey system is pretty messed up and affects your pay, ranking, and job advancement. Team Managers get pulled from the street and put in charge of veteran advisors...big morale buster. Team Managers pick their favorites and reap the benefits of being the teachers pet. The rest get kicked in nards for doing our job. Obnoxious, demanding, unrealistic, mean, foul mouthed customers. They seem to feel that just because they aren't standing in front of you, they can get extra nasty. You have to sit back and take it, even though it gets personal, you have to believe that it isn't.

1.0
Feb 12, 2016
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Pros

used to have great products

Cons

long hours of work. extensive mount of travel in Asia lots of managers hire their own relatives Married managers with kids hooked on prostitutes in Asia and thats their motivation to travel to Asia Senior Directors are like the God and everyone fallow what they say even if they are wrong. No career growth within Ops. Ops managers block employees growth because they are so depended on their direct reports since they are busy with hookers in Asia

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