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Good place to work on cool products, bad for work/life balance

Hardware Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Apple for less than 1 year
July 16, 2010
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros
  • Work on cool products.
  • Good place to start a career.
  • Little red-tape for a company its size.
  • Things get done; there is a lot of focus.
Cons
  • Not good for work/life balance.
  • Low pay compared to other companies.
  • Low bonuses.
  • Lots of reorganizations.
  • Schedules that are too aggressive and unreachable make people cynical and disillusioned.
  • Lots of politics.
Advice to Management

Be more accessible to employees at the bottom. Learn to develop better people skills. Be more realistic when it comes to product development schedules and what's feasible to build better employee morale.

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