Company: Apple
Date: 2009-03-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Apple. Think Different, or DO NOT DEVIATE?
Pros: The best reason to work for AAPL is the stock, the street cred after the fact,  the discounts and occasional free iPod/iPhone, and meeting customers who love the product.  Benefits if you survive the bureaucratic gauntlet to FT
Cons: Choke hold on company transparency.
Conflicting must-do requirements from managers who have less technical knowledge than they advertise.
Pay is retail, not tech company.
Reality distortion field requires brain bleach Kool-Aid
Working at Apple destroyed my love for it as a company.
Misrepresenting company policies to customers.
Essentially, AAPL puts as much effort into pretending it is a flawless company as it should into being honest and forward to customers.