Company: Apple
Date: 2021-02-17
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good first job with benefits. Don't stay longer than a few years though.
Pros: Good benefits for a first job/ college job
Cons: To get promoted you have to do more than just have excellent numbers. You have to come up with all sorts of useless extra charts, mass emails to the team on best practices, memos, side projects etc that make it *look* like you're going above and beyond or "innovating" as they call it. Really no one reads any of it and it's completely useless for anything other than your ability to make an argument for promotion when the time comes. The company says this is to drive innovation from the bottom, but really that only comes from management and they disregard any feedback on meaningful changes. It feels like all management does is discuss how to generate "buy-in" as they call it from the team on what ever the companies flavor of the month is in terms of what ever metric they'd like to track. The company repeats over and over that "It's not about the metics or numbers" and "it's about enriching lives" when in reality it is very much all about the numbers, but they frame it in this very Orwellian way where instead of saying "your numbers for applecard financing are low" they'll say something like "We know that talking about Apple Card and teaching customers about its benefits gives customers another incredible option to bring home this amazing technology today that will enrich their life". If you don't catch the hint that what they're saying is your numbers are low than you'll never get promoted, and you'll never get higher than average on a yearly review.

Then the biggest con- a different schedule every single day. You'll never have two days off together again.