Company: Apple
Date: 2018-08-02
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great Company, poor management choices
Pros: It's Apple. Benefits are amazing, every project is big, and there are some great workers.
Cons: Data Center Operations is plagued with insecure, ill-informed, nepotistic, reactive managers that drive out good workers. You're sold a bill of goods about how you're being hired for your brain, to come in and think/innovate. Once you're in, you're promptly told to shut up and be a good drone. If you think outside of the box or question management in any way, you're "not a team player" and "managed out of the environment".  Hard work is only rewarded if politically convenient or if performed by a friend of management. 

Work in any other division at Apple other than Data Center Operations and life is golden.