Company: Apple
Date: 2019-03-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Pays Dividends on a Resume
Pros: **This is from the perspective of an on-site (Cupertino) corporate employee's perspective. Does not apply to home advisors or retail.

- Legitimizes your professionalism and the skills it takes to acquire to get to that point in your career. 
- The people - if you're fortunate you will meet some great people, find a mentor and keep in touch regardless of who you call your employer. 
- Some teams are very flexible with great work/life balance. I was fortunate to be part of several teams like this. 
- Ability to move around within the company (laterally).
- Product discounts (because if you were getting paid a higher salary than Apple, you wouldn't be accepting the offer right?)
- Pads your resume nicely
- You get to say you work at Apple and make mom and dad proud, if that's your thing
Cons: - Average Salary (they know folks like saying they work there and ego wins most of the time)
- After a few years, politics will become very evident and part of it is keeping the status quo (i.e. innovation has declined you could apply the proverb here "The nail that sticks out...")
- Inconsistent policies within organizations (Some teams within the same division/organization are 9-5, others are flexible - up to your manager)
- Apple has become that which it once stood against (an inevitability)
- They've hired third party contractors to police internal policies that may or may not be published