Company: Apple
Date: 2017-12-01
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Some interesting work (if no life), with little local innovation or leadership in a cold corporate experience
Pros: Smart colleagues, and some hyper smart ones -- the kind you work with and feel smarter afterwards as a result

Excellent staff discounts

Nice offices and work spaces (even if the tech rarely worked, ironically)

Frequent beer bashes
Cons: Secretive ("need to know") and therefore silo-ed. Rarely work with colleagues outside your immediate responsibilities

Extremely lean teams and zero work life balance

In spite of reputation for innovation / start-up thinking, my experience was one of rigid rules and process, in other words, corporate as you like

No empowerment to change or impact ways of working ("We've always done it this way")

Cupertino makes all the important decisions and they lead the geo teams by the nose

Poor systems drive manual work and do little to support analysts

Café Macs is expensive and poor quality