Company: Apple
Date: 2019-11-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Program Manager
Pros: Overall its a great place to work, awesome colleagues, brilliant minds
Travel in business class when fly more than 10 hours for everyone
Travel benefits - can claim up to US$100 per day for meal etc.
4 months full paid maternity leaves in APAC countries, and 12 months full paid maternity leave in Europe.
Cons: Each business group works in their own silo, you need to talk to each person to find out who is doing what, no official channel providing such information. 

All important decisions are made in headquarters (they call WW), and passed onto regional offices. 

Not transparent, line manager can block information in-between, and not sharing important informations to play power games. 

No opportunity to learn and grow, instead you need constantly contribute ideas to the company, this may only happen in certain business groups. 

Office bullying from senior manager or senior coworkers (eg. internal client), which needs a lot of kiss ups. 

Too many tools in each business group, either bought from 3rd part, or internal developed, tools get replaced too soon, waste a lot of money and manpower! Well, Apple has a lot of cash to waste, so I guess that's not a problem for them now. 

Office politics / interest groups,  eg. the whole team of senior managers are ex-colleagues.

Employee feedback is not taken seriously, every year the employee survey is like show, no action is taken to address the issues after the survey, even they told you the survey is anonymous the result for each group is still shared within the groups - they narrow down the survey result to each business group, the manager just laugh about it, don't mention about employee feedbacks against the manager.

Manager use fake numbers to present to senior management or executive team, modify the actual number to make it look nice to get more fund.