Pros: The company treats you well with benefits, on-site facilities, perks, and discounts. A vast majority of teams are working on something new and exciting. Tim Cook is making Apple a leading example of what a company should be to its customers (privacy), its country, and the environment (energy/climate).

Cons: 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 than the bugs-in-the-wild you desperately want to fix for customers. Since Steve Jobs left, there doesn't seem 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.

Pros: The company really does want to make great products. It is a good place for heads-down engineers that just want to worry about technical problems.

Cons: This is a big company with a lot of mature groups. Management handles most non-low level decisions, and often neglects to give senior engineers the information to do a senior-level job.

Pros: Nice office spaces and working environment.

Cons: The job can be very focused and won't let you develop into other areas.