Not much recreation options - Senior Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

3.0
21 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stocks offered at the time of Offer are huge. Stock purchase plan is also good.

Cons

- No TT/Ping Pong, foosball, or other recreation options in any campus except may be the one building - Silent, dull environment, with everyone just simply doing their work and like robots. - Much like a big professional corporate, no startup culture (though in the induction, they say they still work like a startup - that's completely false) - 401K contribution is very less for the starting, unlike companies like Intuit which give 125% contribution right from the start - Gym is nice but joining takes time. And Gym is not free like other companies. - Cafetaria is not as great as companies like LinkedIn, Intuit, Netflix - and not even close to Google, Facebook.

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We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

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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