Company: Apple
Date: 2013-11-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Lonely, stressed, and overworked in a competitive environment
Pros: - The cafe is amazing, even if it's not free.
- Great equipment - standup/sit-down desk, machines for testing.
- Smart co-workers who care about their job. No slackers.
- Shuttle buses for transportation.
- Bonuses for job well done.
Cons: - Meetings where you could cut the tension with a knife.
- Profanity is okay at any time.
- More work than can be done in a 40 hour work week.
- If you're a woman and work in engineering, but you're not a programmer, be prepared to be lonely.
- If you don't respond to emails received on nights and weekends, you're left behind.
- Arrogant company culture. They expect you to treat your job like you're employee #10 in a start-up.
- No work/life balance.
- Dysfunctionally secretive. Little to no guidance to new employees.
- Co-workers pass you in the hallway and don't acknowledge your existence.

If you enjoy a competitive work environment where meetings get tense, and the company takes itself very seriously, with long hours, then you'll be okay.