Company: Apple
Date: 2018-01-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

I won't miss Apple.
Pros: Monthly/Bi-Monthly sometimes yummy free food.
Doctor/Gym on-site.
Cafe on-site, hit and miss on food, most often good.
Attempt at listening to employee happiness.
Medical/Health benefits.
If you love Apple, it's an opportunity to make this into your career. If you don't, you can boost your resume with disdain.
Cons: Kool-aid drinking -- Apple speaks to thinking outside the box. Being innovative. Being creative. They don't allow for any actual creativity. Something is always controlled, even if so slightly. Being a contrarian here, the kind of person that actually would challenge your peers to be better, is frowned upon. Being different isn't beloved here, being the same kind of "different" (actually completely the same, over and over) is.

Monthly/Bi-Monthly food can often be actually pretty disgusting. You'll find one small plate that you'll like and reccomend that same plate to everyone. Who am I to really complain about free food though, right? Except when I look at start-ups and other large companies that make Apple pale in comparison. 

Social circle supporting, as someone who has seen the good and bad side of leadership, the contrast from being in favor to not is astounding. 

Attempt at listening to employees happiness and feedback falls INcredibly short and is dependent on your being in favor. Leadership claims to have open doors, but employees have been chastized for going over their direct supervisor and upper leadership is very dismissive to anyone they do not care for. This is not open doors. This is a front. It's common word to "pick your battles".

Leadership openly talks trash about their direct reports to other people on the same level and below them. It is incredibly inappropriate. 

There is NO equal opportunity here, but there IS a facade that there is.  It's unreal. I'm speaking on behalf of several people who work hard who may not be a) outspoken or b) a brown noser. These few are completely passed over for the same handful of people that make friends with leadership on insincere terms.

The overall decor of Apple feels sterile and unwelcoming - and not at all creative/innovative/anything Apple is supposed to stand for! They paint the walls white each month so the stench of paint fills the halls. Each month you feel like the walls are closing in on you, layer by layer.