Company: Apple
Date: 2021-02-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Center of Corruption, Racism, Sexism and Nepotism
Pros: Salary is good and nothing else is good and that "nothing else" is not something bearable that you can say "okay I will try my best and I will save some money and I will leave". No sir, the cake's not worth the candle, really.
Cons: If you are not from some "certain" countries, you are on your own and nobody will care about you, nobody will help you when you need. And when it is time to give permanent Apple positions to the contractors, it is the worst part: if you are not boyfriend/girlfriend of "somebody who knows somebody" then you stand almost zero chance: they will give these permanent Apple positions as if they grant their own property to the people which they like. Nothing is about being qualified or how you do your job. For example, when I first applied for a permanent Apple position they said I didn't have enough experience which was 6 months, but they hired many many people with less than 2 months experience with nothing on their CV. Yes I asked them about it, how these guys had more experience than I did, they had no answer. Also some superior managers never introduce you to HQ in Cupertino. It is like a Sindrella story they want to hide you from the superior managements because maybe they might hire you and in that case these corrupted managers cannot give the position to their favored friends/partners. In my example, all the people who were given the permanent position were interviewed by my organization first and then by US organization. However I was interviewed first by managers of my team and the second interview was by the managers of my team once again. They didn't follow the usual interviewing procedures because they already decided about me months before the interview and if you pass their first interview, they organize a second one with irrelevant questions. Here, you might think that "okay dude obviously they were not happy with your service, the way you work" etc... No. A big NO as I have personally requested feedbacks all the time just to see if there was something negative so I'd be able to improve myself. I haven't had any negative feedback from any manager. On the contrary all the other leads and supervisors were telling me I was doing a great job and they used to thank me in person thanks to the way I do cooperate with them. Some of my supervisors were also surprised and upset when they heard the news that Apple didn't give me the permanent position and also they didn't extend my contract. Without any negative feedback, any explanation, any complaint... 
I was suspecting this kind of corruptions and I informed superior managers: "big guys", including my manager up to the highest level of the management I also tried to get help from "Business Conduct" and they also ignored this corruption. (Business conduct is supposed to deal with any kind of misconduct so here nepotism, racism and sexism are all "core values" of Apple, otherwise "Business Conduct" would take some action, no?) And these days I know they need to fill the position I left, I hear they interview some other people to hire as contractor/summer cover and guess what: most of the candidates are friends of the same "somebody". 
Ah I forgot the best part: 
when they didn't extend my contract, my team had a summer cover which barely had 10% of my experience and skills, they gave the position to her (because somebody in my team didn't like our team is "all male" so they wanted a "female") and they hired a friend of theirs who would also ignore their incompetent practices. So I have worked in/ for many international companies but Apple was the worst, a total career terrorism. They commit all the unprofessional and corrupted actions and they get away with it. I first thought it was just some corrupted people at Apple and the company would not tolerate any of it as they claim it with fancy words on twitter but I can say they just claim they are against racism, sexism, nepotism etc on social media but they promote all of these.
If you think Apple would be a career leap, remember about this message. If you are just a random person and cannot be favored by somebody in the management stay away. If you already have your own routine, if you are happy what you have now, do not take any risks with Apple because you might lose even what you have now.
In conclusion: There are many other details I forgot and I cannot put in here but I can say I thought I was the only one to be exposed all these misconducts but when I put the stick into the hornets' nest, I have seen there are way too many people suffered of the same thing. They are all from the different departments of the company in different countries. 
PS. I haven't mentioned how these new but favored people are awarded with test lead positions or some other managing roles while the other people who has been in the company since years (like 10+ years) were not promoted. It is not that only 1-2 bad apples corrupting the whole basket, no. All levels of the management are aware of the situation and they want to benefit from it. This is what they want.