(for IS&T business intelligence team) minimal success rate if you are a good engineer... politics, politics & politics - Senior Software Engineer Apple Employee Review

1.0
21 Nov 2015
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Pros

average to above average salary and perks stable job routine work which is mostly done by contractors, you can sit idle if you like this approach you don't need to work hard to improve your technical skills :-)

Cons

poor poor work culture hardly any thought process into building good, crisp, intelligent solutions claim to fame is business intelligence, absolutely no work done with predictive intelligence mostly routine work of building useless reports and some dashboards if you are a strong / good technical engineer looking to do some good creative work, do not join here plenty of managers who have no vision, no management experience many non technical senior managers who are extremely proud of not knowing what's happening in the industry and their poor technical skills lots of politics that kill innovation and new ideas as frequently as possible few political honchos who need to approve anything and everything that needs to happen knee jerk reaction is the long term strategy mechanism unfortunately :-( no opportunities for employees to grow or build a defined career path plenty of discrimination based on bias, favoritism very very minimal diversity in teams and on top of that as if to promote diversity, they encourage less than smart people to grow (that further leads to frustration in engineers if u r good at what u do)

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5.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

I am inspired by the technical expertise I see at the leadership level. People are collaborative. And the work is really interesting.

Cons

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4.0
28 Aug 2014
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Pros

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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