Apple

Great pay, great benefits, and you have Apple on your resume.

Reviews are accurate, all of the bad ones at least. They use a lot of offshore contractors, and a high percentage are not good. The same goes for the managers; they used to be not-so-good contractors and are managers now.

It's not usually bad to use contractors due to the flexibility of scaling up and down on people. But when you have 5 employees and 15 contractors, and they just come and go, you don't really have that flexibility. It's the same 15 positions, but filled by people who are taken to extreme burnout and are writing code and creating designs worse than recent grads.

Engineer quality is the worst I've ever seen in my life overall, with 18 YOE. Are there good folks there? Yes, absolutely. But when you have 5 employees and 15 contractors, and 50% suck and are offshore in India on a completely different timezone, you are in for a mess and a career hara-kiri.

Unless you are making much less than the current TC offered, I would advise against it. It doesn't matter the team, trust me on that. I have experienced and interacted with several teams; it's all the same.

If the TC is significantly higher, take it, and leave soon for a similar paying company. I'm looking for my way out.

All the contractors are from Tata Consulting and Infosys. Those guys are suffering and being exploited.

100% of the people I've interacted with are Indians. Diversity is 0%. It's incredible; you feel like you are in India yourself. I've never seen this in my life, and I've worked in all the MAGAF.

If you are going to have contractors, why not have them at least on a similar timezone? Contractors are good for flexibility, scaling resources up and down. But if you have a contractor for five years, that means it was never a temporary necessity. Why have them at all if they weren't quality engineers?