Hardware Test Engineering (HWTE TDL) - Test Design Lead Apple Employee Review

2.0
13 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of cross functional team interactions, if you like travel and are single lots of opportunity to travel to China business class and stay in premium hotels. HWTE org works across all product lines so potential to switch between them.

Cons

Work life balance expect to work your weekends and holidays. Evening calls and text messages during family times are normal. If don't answer then it can be perceived that you are not committed to Apple. HWTE can be a very political at times. Previous experience outside of Apple counts for nothing once you join. You practically become an intern again. TDL role has lots of responsibilities but no one is accountable to you. You are advised upon Jong to bribe people with lunch to ensure your emails get answered.

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Cons

ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just don't lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DON'T care

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