Company: Apple
Date: 2013-11-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Punishing. But after this, anything is easy.
Pros: Name recognition, beautiful products millions of people use. It's not often you can tell people in any country what you do and they all know what you're talking about. Tremendous learning experience—probably a great thing to have on the resume, too.
Cons: Incredibly stingy for such a high-value company. Below-market compensation because of the desirability of the brand. Will let you work yourself to death—work/life balance is abysmal. Too much work and not enough people—unless you repeatedly raise a red flag or leave, they will never give you more people and will try to take some away to work on new initiatives. The commute is horrific.