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It's just a corporation

Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Apple for less than 1 year
March 1, 2009
Cupertino, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Smart co-workers, good products, and a pretty campus.

Cons

Change the world? If you mean feeding starving kids in Africa, that's Bill Gates.

Apple makes slick products for yuppies. In exchange, you get huge work hours, medium pay, and benefits. This is okay, though; it's not so different essentially from other companies.

The worst problem is some of the mid-level management. I've never seen the level of pettiness and, in a couple of cases, viciousness toward employees anywhere else that I've seen here. It's not throughout the whole company, but there are a couple of sectors that are really bad, and they have lost people because of it.

You have to be very careful about the mid to senior-level management you'll work for.

Advice to Management

Grow up. Apple is a corporation selling consumer products, not "changing the world," whatever that means. Expect professionalism from every level of your management.

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