Company: Apple
Date: 2016-04-08
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Worst Manager Ever
Pros: * smart, dedicated, motivated people
Cons: My manager was a nightmare, and borderline abusive. 

I shared, openly, the extreme conditions I was under with this person, and instead of trying to improve things, they instead made things worse for me. I also shared with HR, but that was a dead-end, and I knew I needed to escape the unhealthy conditions I was facing. Every single day was incredibly stressful, and despite my ability to perform at a high-level, expectations were always ever increasing. I always felt exhausted, both physically and mentally, and rarely even had time to run to the bathroom.

The words I would use to describe my manager:
* Lacking empathy
* Tyrant
* Alpha
* Extreme micromanager (i.e. would email/message/call/text me every 5 minutes, every single day)
* Lacking boundaries (i.e. calls and texts in the middle of the night, regardless of the severity, with an expectation to always respond)
* Unable to prioritize
* Bully