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Great place and role if you want to hustle, climb the corporate ladder, and travel

Product Quality Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Apple for 20 years
September 22, 2021
Cupertino, California
4.0
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Pros

Travel (also a con) as a PQE. You will travel all over the place that product is manufactured. Most of it in China, but a few trips to Europe if your product requires it.

Good pay, great benefits. Management quality is a hit or miss, so YMMV (your mileage may vary).

Cons

Travel (also a pro). Managers depend on your skills or vary; some organizations will be great, others not so much. They focus more on pleasing leadership, having unnecessary spin, and constantly creating slide decks that are cut last minute because the deck was too dense.

Advice to Management

Focus on your people and stop trying to please leadership. Leadership will be happiest when good product is produced as a result of your people under you being happy to work.

Push back on the culture to constantly create endless slide decks just because the OPMs want to have something to report when there is literally nothing to report.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
4.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
4.0

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