Company: Apple
Date: 2014-01-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Huge coolness factor, still a corporate job
Pros: Coolness factor of Apple, less so after Jobs left. Ok pay(below market rates in my opinion though). Looks great on a resume. If you can get on a team that is a cool project then you can have a lot of fun, there is a lot of projects that arent really "cool" or "fun" though and you are kinda considered in a lesser position when you are on one of those.

Stock price made me a ton of money cause I started there when it was really low, I dont know how it would work out these days.

Had my own private office, I wish I had that at the places ive worked since haha.
Cons: Marginal pay increases even with stellar performance review. The general feeling that you should be "lucky" to work there because it is Apple. Lots of slow processes in the teams I was involved with. 

Org changes happened a lot. I witnessed a large layoff(half of a dept, over 60 people, when the company was absolutely thriving, but that product wasnt).

I was tossed around managers, because of re-orgs. 

Food wasnt free when I worked there, and it wasnt that good, pretty repetitive.

Feeling of being treated as not part of the "in crowd" if you aren't working on a top tier project.