Smart people, exciting tech, terrible work-life balance
Smart people, exciting tech, terrible work-life balance
On many teams in R&D, you get to work with brilliant, dedicated peers on exciting, people-empowering technologies and products.
Most roles demand long hours (60+ hour weeks) and round-the-clock communication. The work/life balance sucks. Apple is a divorce factory.
If you want to see yourself as a progressive employer, you must fix the work/life balance problems you currently allow to fester on too many R&D teams. When so many R&D job postings say "must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding environment," that's your employees warning job seekers that management doesn't care about this.
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San Jose, California, United StatesMay 23, 2025I had a video meeting with the hiring manager. They asked me about relevant past work experience and told me about the position I was interviewing for. Then, they asked me some technical questions in order to confirm that I was able to solve releva
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesMarch 9, 2025The interviews are known to be mostly hard, but it turns out if you prepare enough, it is not that difficult. I think communication is the key in the interview process.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2024The initial interview was with the hiring manager to discuss my previous work experiences. After the hiring manager interview, I had a phone screening and then an onsite interview. The HR notified me that the position had been canceled before a fin
