Apple reviews

If you’re a software engineer this isn’t a place to be. The work life balance is not existent for very bad reasons. That’s only because you won’t be able to use or build tools that can make your life easier. The over culture is very bureaucratic and there’s literally no check on the bad managers. In my experience they don’t care about teams success and there interests lie elsewhere. Few of them are downright psychotic - foster toxic environment, bullying, threatening, etcetera. Very, very hard to move internally. You have to let you current manager know before you make a contact with the future Hiring managers. The toxic managers may block your move if you don’t play ball despite having good reviews. The benefits are awful as compared to other large tech companies. Heck even start-ups! You get 11 days PTO for working the whole year. They do have Christmas shutdown but everyone is forced to work to hit the deadlines that follow after the shutdown.

Reviews are accurate, all of the bad ones at least. They use a lot of OFFSHORE contractors, and high percentage are not good, same for the managers, they used to be not so good contractors and are managers now. Is not usually bad to use contractors due to the flexibility of scale up and down on people, but when you have 5 employees and 15 contractors and they just come and go, you don't really have that flexibility, it's the same 15 positions but filled but people that are taken to extreme burn out and writing code and creating designs worst than recent grads. Engineer quality is the worst I've ever seen in my life overall with 18 YOE. Are there good folks there? Yes, absolutely, but when you have 5 employees and 15 contractors and 50% suck and are OFFSHORE in India on a completely different timezone you are in for a mess and a career hara-kiri. Unless you are making much less than the current TC offered, I would advise against it. It doesn't matter the team, trust me on that, I have experienced and interacted with several teams, it's all the same. If TC is significantly higher take it, and leave soon to similar paying company. I'm looking for my way out. All the contractors are from Tata Consulting and Infosys, those guys are suffering and being exploited. 100% of the people I've interacted with are Indians, diversity is 0%, it's incredible, you feel like you are in India yourself, never seem this in my life and I've worked in all the MAGAF.