Apple reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,068 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 43,068 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
4.0
Apr 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and Time off are by far the MOST impressive thing about working for Apple. When there's an illness in the family or you're sick, they definitely step up and take care of their own. The customers are mostly nice and fairly well educated people; however, you will get at least one person calling in a day that will try to make your job harder just because they can. Management is mostly awesome. I've met one or two people that can be a little too aggressive and impersonal. The pay is the best in the services industry, starting around $15 an hour for employees directly employed by Apple according to glassdoor. Also, as an At-Home-Advisor, you are considered corporate rather than retail. This has a huge effect I can't go into at the moment but it definitely makes a huge difference in what your job has to offer. Also, if you don't like one department, you can transfer to another department. You may have to wait a while for that transfer but you can get it. There's also a wide variety of further career opportunities to open yourself up for once you get into the fold. This is probably the number one reason people stick around at Apple for so long.

Cons

Like most companies, there are cons. So I didn't give the full five stars. You're still dealing with customers who are either a bit uneducated or lacking in sophistication at times, so it is appropriate to learn how to speak to the 'salt of the earth' types in order to deescalate the situation. Sometimes, especially after a long call, you need to catch your breath and take a breather... but metrics doesn't like it when you do that. Not only is this type of approach stressful to employees, it also makes people prone to various physical and psychological ailments like sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, heart palpitations, drug/alcohol addictions, etc. Right now, they're saying we should be back on the phone and ready to take a call within a minute of hanging up. This is to compensate for understaffed departments and busy times of the day. This should be a temporary solution rather than a year-round expectation. I guarantee none of the people instituting this policy have actually had any real world experience fielding calls from customers. Otherwise, they might think twice about setting such an insane expectation. However, this isn't just Apple. The vast majority of companies fit this con. If this is the kind of work you're going to do, at least do it for a better wage, better benefits and with better time off policies. Speaking of which, you will be severely stressed out the first 2-3 months on the phones since training is usually rushed. The good thing is when you're starting out you can reach out to your "Senior Specialist" and they can help you out with any calls you weren't fully prepared for in training (I'll give you a hint... it's most of them).

3.0
Mar 25, 2016

Love it / Hate it

Recommend
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Pros

The work, at its best, is truly inspiring. It's really all about getting to do interesting projects that will touch millions of people. The fast pace provides an adrenaline rush that, deep down, I seriously enjoy.

Cons

I'm not convinced that Apple cares about its employees, and things are getting worse all the time. In the last year, free dinner was moved from 5pm to 7pm, our free apples were taken away, and food prices were raised. A large, delicious salad from the salad bar used to cost $4, and overnight it went up to $7. I have little hope that things will be better when Apple Campus 2 opens next year. Additionally, the campus (if you could call it that) is now so large that I often spend hours of my day just shuttling around to different meetings. My productivity suffers.

4.0
Dec 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fantastic technical challenges, brilliant people, complex and important problems to be solved. The benefits are great, of course, and the prestige both during the time you work there and even afterwards on your resume are significant benefits. If you like serious intellectual challenges, and the opportunity to do something that makes a difference in the world, this is the place for you. I think the compensation was very fair compared to other companies, and those people who really are rock stars really get very well compensated.

Cons

The culture (in engineering) is a tough one, hard on people who aren't at the top of their game. I think that Apple actually is a pretty high integrity place in general, but in my experience there certainly used to be a very strong political nature. This is always true in any organization with a lot of people, of course, but at Apple there was a certain sloppiness about allowing bad managers without a strategic plan to continue to survive and do damage far too long just because they were good at making their bosses feel good. Maybe this was just the case in the group where I worked. Maybe this has changed since Tim Cook has taken over.

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