Work is great but expectations and management are garbage - Engineering Project Manager Apple Employee Review

3.0
20 Jun 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Customer impact is great, good corporate image, products are wonderful, physical environment is pretty good, health benefits are great

Cons

Management never wants to talk about money. Very hard to get work related items paid for or reimbursed. Even getting new work computers only happens every few years if you’re lucky. Never enough test devices. Pay is below par. RSUs are great at first but never get re-upped. Many managers play favorites heavily and no one checks them. Feedback up the chain without going through them is discouraged and seen as insubordinate. Previously the couple of months before WWDC was crazy crunch, but now schedules are causing it to happen year round. You’ll never work 40hr weeks.

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Cons

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Pros

We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

Cons

ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just don't lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DON'T care

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