Company: Apple
Date: 2011-05-13
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

A grand facade
Pros: Amazing products, superb brand recognition. It's exciting to work with a company that is at the top of it's game and leading the field in such a great product space.
Cons: Chaos. Chaos. Chaos. 
Lack of structure, process, efficiency and scabality in day-to-day execution. Systems and tools used internally are behind the times, making it extremely difficult to get work done in an efficient, quality-focussed manner. 
Very disjointed across departments. The product/hardware side is where it's all at. The rest is a jumbled heap of, I say it again, chaos.
It's unbelievable how something looking so polished from the outside is so messy inside. 
Salaries and related compensation, in my experience, are below par. 
The brand is very appealing - but proceed with caution.