Company: Apple
Date: 2015-09-25
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Awesome culture, passionate people, absolute joy to work here!
Pros: Competitive salary plus excellent employee, dependent benefits.
Culture of excellence. You will be surrounded by driven, smart and highly collaborative individuals.
Everyone is an expert in something, you just need to be willing to ask for help. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness within Apple.
Cool Apple gadgets at the workplace - carrying around a MacBook Air is way cooler than carrying around a boring corporate black IBM thinkpad.
Good food at Cafe Mac, most new joiners put on a few pounds within weeks if not days of joining. However there is always the gym and numerous wellness programs offerings on campus to smoothen the 'food impact'.
Cons: Long drawn interview process requires absolute determination and endurance.
Fast pace environment, lots of ambiguity at work, need to be a quick thinker and fast learner, nobody will teach you how to organize/streamline/structure your work/tasks. 
People who can't cope with the above will end up working long hours and probably won't survive for long.
Paid leave entitlement is market standard and not exciting but all the other amazing benefits over compensates for that.
At a minimum, you need to be tech savvy at Apple. You set up your own laptop, assemble your work station (monitor, keyboard etc will be delivered to your desk still in boxes), configure your own work phone etc on your first day.