Company: Apple
Date: 2017-08-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Operations
Pros: Stock, pay, after you have been here long enough and passed over for promotions, they let you have more flexible work hours particularly if you have dirt or have a case for employee mistreatment.  Interesting subject matter is seen and touched, but not owned.
Cons: Very bad morale.  Motivation by fear of "losing your job".  Operations management is extremely bad, political, trite, petty, and not going to change.  Line level managers are slaves to senior managers or replaced.  If you end up under the wrong mentor  and they get on the wrong political side, you are screwed.  Not allowed to transfer even if offered other roles.  Lots of really bad people here, but likely about average for silicon valley.  Not a place for working fathers of young kids unless your wife stays home from work.  Working mothers are given space.  Must be able to work long hours, sit in your desk, make small talk non-stop to get promoted.  More about not making waves and sitting in a cubicle than productivity.  Ask yourself how Apple maps was released several years ago with so many problems?