Apple

The people you work with at Apple are highly intelligent, skilled, passionate, and the best I have ever worked with in my career.

The pay is high, and if you can stay with Apple for longer terms, the stock bonuses keep accumulating.

I was dramatically overworked and burned out. The pressure is very high, the pace of work is frenetic, and the responsibility on each individual is stressful.

After accounting for the overtime hours I worked, the pay rate evens out with many other non-tech related roles. I could likely have worked 2 full-time jobs and gotten more sleep.

Work-life balance is needed, not something to acknowledge and then ignore because you need things done.

The physical and mental health of your employees degrade when pushed hard, and eventually their performance drops.

Pressuring them harder to continue their output will only result in a downward spiral with resentment on both ends before either they leave or you have to terminate them.