Apple

Okay pay and benefits. The company is socially conscious and offers exciting and challenging work. It's an okay place to work, relatively speaking for the Bay Area.

Working with novice hardware designers, ridiculous deadlines, and some of the leadership doesn't appreciate the skill required to bring up suppliers.

Very little family and social life, too much travel, meetings, politics, and drama can be emotionally draining. Management has tried to reduce travel and improve work-life balance, but it's kind of fake since good employees are still working from home 20+ hours a week, which is normal (on top of 60+ hours at work).

Please have PD do the groundwork before rolling out half-baked ideas. It would save a lot of time and money. Also, get some people in there who have actually worked in engineering to vet out the ideas prior to kick-off.

I can't say this enough: the folks with boots on the ground are unsung heroes. Thrashing away at suppliers and bringing them up should be given praise and reward. Please figure out who the key employees are and work damn hard to keep them. They love Apple; without them, the core culture will perish.