Company: Apple
Date: 2016-09-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Dump the orlando site management
Pros: I really liked working with smart, creative and motivated engineers.  I felt like the first level engineers all worked together very well and got a tremendous amount of work done in an incredibly short time. I'm missing working with them. It will be a good career memory.
Pay and benefits are excellent.  I also enjoy the whole Orlando area.
Cons: Now the problem. Management is the worst!  Everything I was enjoying about working at the Orlando site was ruined by these corrupt politicians. First of all, being a manager at Apple makes them feel as if they are the best on the planet. This translates into extreme arrogance and failure to listen to anything any engineer says.  They are not good managers. They just think so and demand to be treated like they are great.  Forget about anyone listening to your ideas and expect to be talked down to all the time.  Next, and I think worst, there is such a strong desire by management to retain their jobs, and hopefully advance their careers, at a company name like Apple that they will do anything to make themselves look even greater than they act like they are.  So you will always fail to get a manager to listen to your explanation that an idea is bad. Then some story will be created to blame you when that bad idea actually goes bad because managers cannot be held accountable for their mistakes. 
This was a very corrosive work environment. I realized that instead of a chance to make a real difference, my career would only be one of being ignored, worked to death, and blamed for every bad move a manager made.  I was paid well. But not well enough to put up with such undeserved abuse.  I voluntarily resigned when I had enough.