Company: Apple
Date: 2019-04-05
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Great experience - I left after 15 years.
Pros: - You get to work alongside some of the smartest people around.
- I love Apple products and getting to work on the services to make them better / fuller was a great experience.
- Good food in the Cafe.
- Manager was a hands-off kind of person and let me have plenty of personal leeway how (and when) things were done.
Cons: - Internal politics really sucked, especially when Scott Forstall was around.  It's gotten better recently (before I left).
- Pressure to get things done is sometimes intense.
- Shifting priorities all the time.
- You work on something for quite a while and it ends up on the cutting-room floor (too often!).  @See Politics.
- There's not a whole lot of career movement (or a mentality of changing jobs frequently).