Company: Apple
Date: 2008-07-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Apple is not a magical place
Pros: The best reason to work for Apple is that you will get to see your products go to market almost every year.    If you get a strong team that likes to follow process (and there aren't very many of these types of teams), then you will be happy.  If you can still get stock options, you'll get a good return on your investment.
Cons: It is a completely dysfunctional organization with almost no memory of lessons learned.  The products are very challenging to complete when given minimal time and subpar resources.  If you're not in the iMac or iPhone groups, then count on being the last priority when it comes to resources.