Company: Apple
Date: 2018-02-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Apple as a Security consultant in Apps Division
Pros: Apple has some of the brightest people working in Apps.
Working at Apple really dresses up your resume.
Expectations are very high for everyone. Consultants included.
There was a high end Latte / Espresso machine in the break area.
Private office which had no windows and was quiet.
Interesting  people to meet in the hall once and a while.
Everyone is painfully hip. The more face and body art - the more
Apple"y" end edgy it seems to be.
People seem to watch the edgy commercials on TV and dress the part at work.

The commute bus. Huge huge perk.
Employees get a good EDD discount on new Apple products.

Working with people who code at the speed of light.

Some of the buildings and offices are private. This is a HUGE perk.

If you have a creative job at Apple and you are not keeping infrastructure running
then I think you will be very happy.

You will work with the brightest people in the world.
You may gain tattoos and face art in the process because everyone else will be wearing it.

Apple is mostly a young culture- 25 to 35 is the mean age.

My team did NOT have SCRUM. I hate SCRUM / Jira
And escaping the SCRUM disease even for 5 months was a HUGE bonus.

The Large Apple Park RING is filling up. I hear it is pretty cool in there.
But mostly Facebook style seating.
Gee, thanks Facebook (not!)
Cons: There is no life balance in some teams. 
The team I was in - everyone worked nights from home and weekends from home.
In Monday staff meeting all you listened to was what problem people solved on
their free time over the weekend.
If you want to live to work by all means.

Apple has high internal security.
Some employees are cleared with a RED badge and live behind walled areas
which other employees and consultants can't access.

You can't talk to other employees about what you are working on. Period.

You need to do exactly as you are told with no questions.

When something needs done - it needs to be executed precisely and on the day as requested. Or your job as a consultant could be in jeopardy.

Internal politics were as there is only one right way to do something and yet
your boss and his boss "The Director" have differing needs - can land you in
trouble as you need to decide to please one or the other.
I chose the Director. Mistake.

You will probably be required to work at home on weekends and at night.
This is not something I want to do week after week and month after month.

Know that you will be pushed to your limits and expected to assimilate any instructions instantly. 

Hint - use your iphone to take pictures (notes) of difficult instructions.

Apple is what it is.

If you are in the IT section of Apple you will have to follow orders exactly.
I have never worked in a creative job at Apple. Probably would be wonderful.