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Easy Work, Boring Pay

AI/ML Annotation Analyst
Former Employee
Worked at Apple for less than 1 year
January 30, 2024
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

A decent place to work for a young person.

Much better than working fast food or customer service.

The job is mind-numbingly easy.

The job is low-stress, and you have to be brain-dead to get fired.

Benefits at the company are nice.

If you can read and write, you can do this job. Any bum off the street can do this job.

You can be on your phone all day, and no one cares.

Management is pretty chill.

They buy you food sometimes and also offer free snacks. They say you can only take two, but I take however many I feel like, just because.

Cons

The job is monotonous and boring.

Everyone works individually, so no one talks, and that's kind of depressing.

The snacks they bring in actually suck. They need to ask people what they want because some of the stuff they bring us, I wouldn't give to my dog.

Pay sucks for an adult with any responsibility.

You need a degree to get this job. Why?

Everyone on site hates their job in an almost comical way.

If you work this job and you're over 25, you're actually a loser, or at least that's the vibe I get from people that work here. Like, come on, you have a degree and you're doing this? Seriously?

People that underperform don't get fired, and it's super demoralizing to know you can work hard and still get paid the same as the guy who sits next to you watching anime all day.

Very little opportunity to move up in the company or make connections and network.

Forget getting promoted. Even if you're working hard, there are only so many senior positions, and only the top performer is getting in, aka not you.

I'm not even sure what the managers even do other than pretend to work. I mean, seriously, they just talk all day. Stop talking and bring me my snacks.

Upper management is clueless to the changes that need to be made to run our branch effectively.

Advice to Management

Lay people off for the love of God. You don't need a degree to type on a keyboard and know a language. You can even pay people less, you greedy pigs.

Just hire younger, and you'll do better. Hire 18-year-olds. Hire immigrants.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
2.0

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