Company: Apple
Date: 2014-04-11
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

An exciting, abstract workplace.
Pros: I really enjoyed the variety of people I met while with Apple. I was given the opportunity to learn a ton of new things, and Apple truly believes in helping their employees' development. They hire a diverse, yet similar group of people, where almost everyone that you work with feels like they are your close friend.
Cons: Some managers exhibit "micro-managing" type qualities, making it hard to see eye to eye with them and feel like you're doing the right thing. Also, the attendance policy at Apple was awful. A point for every callout, no matter if you were deathly ill or just hungover and didn't feel like coming to work - regardless of if you had a doctor's note for the illness. There was an extremely complicated method of filing for medical leave, which required contacting a third-party company and having extensive paperwork filled out by both you and your doctor, which had to be faxed or mailed to the company. For a company that states to really believe in it's people, it didn't seem like that went to the extent of their wellbeing when they are sick.