Every Org is Different - Software Engineering Manager Apple Employee Review

3.0
14 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Really smart and engaged engineers and scientists and people who work hard to do good things. Each org/team has a unique set of challenges and are empowered to meet those challenges as they see fit, resulting on a lot of duplication of effort and infrastructure - but secrets prevent sharing of tools and knowledge. Team culture is hard to get a sense of and it can vary significantly under the Apple umbrella.

Cons

It is the worst place I have ever worked as an engineer and thankfully my last. Management is full of bullies who have no idea about the technologies we work with. I've been called stupid to my face multiple times and probably far more when I wasn't there (as reported back). I've see managers push on things in meetings and conference calls to the point where the messenger bringing the message is at the point of tears. I've seen support completely withdrawn from people who needed medical care. I've seen a complete lack of concern among management about teams, how teams work (or don't) and how to do things better - management doesn't seem to care. Management is complacent and lazy and sitting on tons of RSUs since "they made it" but are clueless about what others are trying to accomplish. I've never seen a management team work against their employees the way I've seen them work against people here. I've seen a director level manager belittle people on topics they know nothing about and are completely wrong but go unchallenged because your career would be toast.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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