Company: Apple
Date: 2008-08-11
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

If your great at what you do, you can change the world, as long as you are quiet about it.
Pros: It's one of the few places where you have the chance to change the world of technology, and work with some of the smartest people in the world. Anyone's pet project can wind up shipping to millions of Macs and iPhones - but you have to be great at what you do, and really be passionate about it.
Cons: Secrecy is the cult tool of management. While secrecy is beneficial during development, and helps make a big splash on introduction of a product - the paranoia still runs deep after the product has shipped. The default answer to any question is "say nothing publicly", and this philosophy is driven out of fear, even for purely technical discussions.