Company: Apple
Date: 2017-05-25
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

AOS & Apple Watch Setup
Pros: Awesome employees. Awesome facilities in Austin (brand new campus). Awesome pay and benefits. Awesome technology of course. If you are happy to be a worker bee, or are motivated to try and move up, Apple can make it happen.  You really feel apart of something bigger than yourself, and of course as it is Apple - something world renowned and cool.  They have put a lot of thought and energy into keeping employees feeling valued as individuals, and the devent pay, benefits, facilities, HR support etc. support that. This was is best place I have ever worked in my 17 year career. Oh, and Café Macs (cafeteria) is the best in the world for staff meals. No joke, google it!!!
Cons: Middle management & micromanagement: It is luck of the draw getting a good manager, at the team/group level. Some are awesome, professional, and totally fair. Others the exact opposite. Also, shift bids are awful. If you complain loud enough ("I have kids to take to school" etc etc), you will usually always get the prime early morning starts, M-F. For all you single or childless people out there (like me), get ready for lots of PM and weekend shifts. Micromanagement is epic. Brace yourself for having every minute of every work day accounted for. Metrics metrics metrics metrics metrics. It is mind-numbing after a while, and the main reason I left. And I was really GOOD at my job. Cute achievement certificates and pats on the back. But I couldn't take the relentless dilution of everything I did into a number. Incredibly dehumanizing after a time. Oh and favortism. Rampant and overt, some managers hide it better than others .