Work/Life Management, not Balance - Engineering Program Manager Apple Employee Review

2.0
20 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Prestigious company, brilliant people, amazing products and engineering.

Cons

Personal time is not protected or consistent. Work days often exceed 12 hours. Apple will tell you it's "work life management" not balance. There will never be balance. Upward mobility is very limited. Base pay increases are minimal, supplemented with RSUs that take 4 years to vest. Work from home benefitted the business extraordinarily well through the pandemic, but Apple is forcing Return to Work and driving many employees to leave.

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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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