Company: Apple
Date: 2016-09-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Idealism buried deep under a decades old corporate culture
Pros: Bright people, some very idealistic and driven, great diversity. Generally high flexibility in self organizing and high accountability for employees (people get demoted or fired if they don't deliver what is expected of them).
Cons: Poor company benefits (vacations, retirement, subsidies), very little profit sharing with employees, boring office parks, expensive cafeteria.

Apple is culturally rooted in the past, and as such has not adopted a more aspirational mission like Airbnb, Uber, Google, Facebook. At the bottom of the line, it's all about doing business and making profit through great products — improving humankind and accepting social responsibility is no priorities to the company (and rather a projection of the marketing team).

Apple also doesn't care too much about the needs of its workforce. Company gym? Pay for it. Healthy snacks/fruits during the day? Rare. Child care? You're on your own. Need to send mail?  You need to consider that their campuses are in the middle of suburbia with few options to satisfy your daily-life needs. And you work long hours.