Company: Apple
Date: 2020-07-17
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A is for Arrogance
Pros: *Good salary & benefits
*Job stability at corporate
*Smart & some kind people if you look for them
*Good on your resume
*Opportunity to develop your political skills and patience
Cons: *Incredibly hard to onboard (& everyone reminds you about this regularly) beyond superficial stuff like IT & basic corporate tasks, especially during COVID. *So so many 10++++ year or "I've only worked at Apple" people. Apparently there's an "Apple Way" to do things but there's also little documented so hard to figure out what that means. 
*Related there's a wide belief that Apple is somehow particularly special (in a way that doesn't prove out imo) & there's an arrogance that goes along with it. This is not a company that values humility or listening.
*Unbelievably siloed based on function & product. Most organizations & even the next level teams might as well be separate companies.
*Your experience will vary incredibly based on which organization & which team you end up on. Ask a lot of tough questions about that during the interviews. What characteristics are valued?
*Your experience will also vary incredibly based on your manager so do your due diligence & insist on a lot of time talking to the manager before you accept a job at Apple.
*Not a company that feels fun or where a sense of humour seems valued. Yes COVID complicates this but we are all still human not robots.
*A lot of time spent talking in committees that go nowhere.