Company: Apple
Date: 2017-05-02
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former

Work Experience Echoes My Product Experience
Pros: The people are bright, driven and passionate about Apple and Apple Products.
The products are...I think beautiful is perhaps the best adjective.
The opportunities to learn abound, and there is always an opportunity to improve upon status quo.
The salad at Cafe Macs is the best salad in the world - yes, world.

(Explaining the title: my use of Apple Products began in the days of colorful iMacs and the Powerbook G4, during the rise of the iPod, and well prior to iPhone, iPad. At the time, there were many tremendous features, but there were certainly items that stood out as pain points. Then, month after month, year after year, the pain points were either removed or improved upon until the products were simply (far) superior to anything else I'd ever seen or used. This, in many ways echoes my experience at Apple. There were definitely aspects that were not perfect, but it was incredible to see an organization that is/was not exactly small, make surprisingly nimble strides to improve in the requisite areas. And, from what I understand, things continue to improve.)
Cons: Really the only cons were around the notion of feedback, up and down, and work / life balance. From what I saw, upon collecting some feedback, management took a systematic approach to addressing both, and I think things have improved dramatically.