Apple reviews

What is work - life balance? Weekends? Ha only for Senior Management. Asking time off? Try competing with 1000+ other people asking for the same day off - good luck. Customers walk all over you because they are entitled and conditioned to get what they want. Managers and co-workers who are materialistic, entitled, fake nice, better than you. No management trainee programs unless you are a good kiss up or a buddy. No growth opportunities, get in line, there's a lot of people in line here. The pay is not commensurate to afford the Austin cost of living. Stressful, thankless job No rewards for doing your job well, getting a satisfactory/meets expectations job performance review is the best you'll ever get, exceeds expectations is IMPOSSIBLE. Management acknowledges this and treats it like a running joke.

If your team is working on something new and exciting, it can be a little too exciting. The pace seems to gradually increase but never level off. The "next thing's" features are more important that the bugs-in-the-wild you desperately want to fix for customers. Since Steve Jobs left, there doesn't feel to be someone at/near the top who has their finger on the pulse of the products. Yes, Steve was intense at times but he really knew what a product or service was supposed to be. It's hard to take more than 2 weeks of vacation at once without giving a lot of notice (say 4+ months). It's nearly impossible to take more than 3 weeks of earned vacation at once. HR, in my experience, is poorly managed and has high turnover. It took 3 months to get me an offer in 2005 and HR failed to give me an exit interview despite it being standard operating procedure.