Apple

As a contractor billing per hour, the pay is great when compared to employees doing similar work.

Good, healthy food for low prices.

The chance to work on really big things.

Most managers don't bother you and let people do their job.

Like any big corp, there are lots of useless meetings, but nobody seems to have a problem when people just don't show up for these.

Other Silicon Valley companies have free food and better drinks; Apple is kind of spartan in comparison.

Contractors don't get many perks employees do get, like lunches and team trips. It makes you feel like upper management wants to create a divide between the two groups, although employees themselves don't act like that at all.

Get rid of that weird divide between contractors and employees.

I've heard that 18 interviews for a job are not uncommon, even when it's an internal application. That seems excessive to me.

There seems to be a more than healthy amount of bureaucracy and middle-management; it seems like a waste to me.