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Talented Engineers, Designers, etc. in Intense, Fast-Paced Culture

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Apple for 6 years
March 24, 2025
Cupertino, California
2.0
Pros
  • Many extremely smart people throughout the company that you can work with and learn from.
  • Top-tier, beautiful facilities.
  • Pretty good employee benefits (health insurance, cafe, etc.).
  • Pride and passion for work.
  • Significant DEI efforts.
Cons
  • If you're on the dev release cycle, expect long, intense work hours.
  • Your experience, culturally and professionally, will heavily depend on your individual team. Team cultures can really vary; each team basically is its own startup.
  • There's a gender imbalance on most engineering teams, despite significant DEI efforts.
Advice to Management
  • Find a team with work styles, values, etc., that you greatly mesh with, because this will determine 95% of your experience.
  • If you join a team on the dev cycle, there is an extremely significant chance that you will be working intense hours.

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