Apple reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,049 total reviews)
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Tim Cook

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 43,049 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Apple employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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43K reviews
3.0
Nov 9, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really interesting work in most areas (very little dull routine). Outstanding opportunity to work with really smart people in your field. General helpfulness of colleagues is almost uniformly present across teams. Really cool leading-edge products and services you can be proud to help develop. Very intense focus on understanding and helping customers. Lots of opportunity to become "expert" on a subject for the company. Financial health of company is excellent. Very good handle on cost management. Benefits are very good. Equal opportunity is apparent everywhere. Very diverse workforce. A truly international company and workforce.

Cons

General rule: You will not know if you really "fit" the culture until about a year on the job. Managers mostly work higher level projects and negotiate resources and priorities (as opposed to develop their people). Experience of working at Apple is hugely influenced by your direct manager and his/her style. Some buffer the craziness, others amplify it. Company is now huge but still trying to act lean like a start up. Teams are getting moved off main campus with little regard to who they need to interact with. "Campus" feeling only applies to core business groups. Work-life balance can quickly become terrible for those who really understand systems and processes and how to manage them. The better you are, the less balance you can expect. Management planning process - continual over-committing continues. Really stove-piped planning structure. Very little cross-functional planning below VP level. Regular surprises from project work in other areas for which you had no visibility.. Secrecy bordering on paranoia can be a pain in the neck especially when it delays notice on necessary (and unplanned) changes in other areas. High turnover in the areas I worked with. Less during the recession. Burn out is common. Fear of being the team/individual that delays or messes up a project is ever present. Absolutely no professional development outside a modest number of internal courses. Don't even think about trying to publish a paper, or speak at a conference! Growing inequity in business team perks and facilities is an annoyance.

5.0
May 4, 2020

A great place to work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great compensation and work life balance.

Cons

I have no Cons working for apple.

2.0
Dec 2, 2015

Churn and Burn

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Co-Workers, 401k Match, Decent Medical, Stock Discount, Provided Equipment,

Cons

Deceptive management/training, told during training that flexing up to full time would only last a couple weeks but was untrue-- turned out to be mandatory overtime lasted over half a year with a full time schedule that was out of your control. Told that you have 100% call control, if 100% call control means having to follow a guide to do forced and scripted scenarios with management and told to use those same scenarios over calls (forced empathy is most uncomfortable) thats a shame. Told that you could do lateral movement to departments after a year of employment....out of the 20+ or so out of my training class only 4-5 survived the burn-out 1 has moved to a Senior Advisor role and the rest are stuck in whatever call que Apple puts them in against their will. High burnout rate, If you look at AHA reviews on Glass door 80%+ of them haven't been with the company longer than a year and most are fresh out of training/nesting where they hype you up so much for how awesome the job is but the new car smell wears off after about 5-6 months of getting beat up on the phones. Direct team management is hit or miss, some will take credit for something they had nothing to do with. (I contacted HR about 2 different issues and both took credit for a decision in my favor AFTER I contacted HR). Some will openly pacify and lie to you out job openings within the company and give you false direction then you call them out on it and met with more lies and deception. Direct support while on a call is a joke, you either fumble on the call for 30+min and get a bad stat. Escalate to a Tier 2 Advisor who rarely wants to take the escalated call and get a bad stat or you put the customer on hold for 5+ min praying someone will answer you question in chat which NEVER Happens. Don't bother asking your team manager either, lunches...personal breaks, real life issues and them just not being there the majority of the unsavory hours and times you work (i.e Nights and weekends). Initial training was fine, it was paid..in depth and had multiple mentoring sessions with great Q&A and lasted well over a month. Getting trained AFTER That is a joke, read some articles and self guided learning and lead you to the wolves, its a disaster and your performance will suffer and feed into any uncertainty you had about getting into your "new" role as well compounding your new found dislike for the proceedings. Apple HIGHLY...HIGHLY advises not to talk about your job with anyone during your training courses, they even suggest not putting it in facebook. Its really a cleaver tactic not just to save themselves the rumors that float around major tech forums/websites but sites like these where people get scared to leave bad reviews on sites like Glassdoor. Nobody will care about a glowing review about Apple but they might think twice about leaving a bad one because of what they saw in training...well played Apple. Company discount, you get a fair % and cash discount once every 3 years. Outisde of that its a joke--they want us to be proficient in the equipment we are supporting but they can't give us a device at cost once a year. Work/Life balance is a joke, if you are right out of training get ready for some of the worst schedules you can imagine. Nights...weekends, you name it. With stats you can juke it can improve some but you are going to have to work a full shift on a weekend none the less more than likely.

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