Faceless Banking Corporation - Demand Forecasting Apple Employee Review

2.0
Mar 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Experience in your CV Colleagues and managers in London Hannover Street are great 27 days holiday Management motivates people to apply to new internal jobs

Cons

"Its Apple policy" You will hear the above frequently and you will face: - Corporate attitude with a banking culture installed (you dont feel like you work for the creative and fun Apple that the brand is known) - No canteen or vending machines (there's a fruit bowl from time to time that magically disappears at 8.30am) so dont expect water or soft drinks like other top companies do (coffee and tea is all you will ever get) - HR is a 0800 number... they dont want you to contact or see them - Severely understaffed with people from DF&A and PF&A finding it hard to stay longer than one year - No budget for social activities so dont expect to have a pint on the house (ever!!!) or have a team lunch - Xmas party is in January (since Apple does not have enough budget for xmas...) - No team building or social trips - No tickets of any kind like music events/festivals or sports events - Dont even dream in getting an iphone, applewatch or even an itunes voucher (shocking to say the least). You get a working old iphone - Apple share's structure gives you a 15% discount. They can be stingy on almost everything but in this case they should reward their long serving employees with greater discounts or simply giving them away - Bonuses are the same as other companies - Unlike other companies when new products are released or when there's a Quarterly business update you wont be involved in anything so there's not a special event - Don't be woo'd by the brand - too many smart people are woo'd by working for Apple the brand and discover when they join that their job is incredibly limited in scope and that their previous skills and experiences are ignored as 'Its Apple policy'

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ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just don't lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DON'T care

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