Pros: Great benefits and pay, flexible hours, large amounts of learning resources, and very nice people. It's an amazing experience, and it's hard to understate how awesome the food is. They also have a lot of great programs for interns, specifically to help make the Apple experience even more amazing.

Cons: When deadlines are coming up, hours get very intense, and other employees can get sucked into work, so interns have to be self-sufficient.

Pros: • Nice perks • Super casual dress code • Really nice people and interpersonal culture • Can actually take accrued vacation without anyone complaining • Stock has been doing very well • Heavy marketing means you can impress everyone when you say where you work.

Cons: - Lots of weird managerial politics. - Endless meetings to get anything done. - Ridiculous amount of secrecy causes animosity between different teams and makes it take forever to get anything done unless it's high priority or "for Steve". - Way understaffed for software engineering in most departments; prepare to work lots of overtime. - Some senior engineers have been around for 20 or 30 years. No matter how out of touch they may be, they will have a significant say in projects tangentially related to them. - Corollary: Don't be young. - Software engineering culture is fad-driven (and we're talking weird Apple-only fads like GCD) on the desktop, and rushed and buggy on embedded.

Pros: Work-Life Balance Pay (assume you get a good RSU package) Salads - $4 No BS interview questions; more applied Very hands-on

Cons: A lot of politics. Not diverse enough, especially in IS&T. Hard to move up if you don't have connections. Too many crappy consultants are given work because of former connections with Apple badged employees.