Everything is being controlled. - Customer Support Apple Employee Review

1.0
12 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- A lot of great colleagues. - Good benefits and health insurance. - Decent salary - can get higher salary in other companies in Dublin and even Cork. - It is good for the CV, but that's about it.

Cons

- Not good noise isolation in the office. Not always easy to hear what people are saying on the phone, as there is no noise isolation between desks, at all (only for the senior managers). - Maximum 10 minutes per week allowance to go to the toilet or away from your desk - manager wants you to ask to go to the toilet, even though they never are there. - Most people recruited are working from home, for Apple to save money. - Small canteen - not much selection of food. Often very crowded. - Management not paying attention to employees' well being - they only care about the numbers and if you're reaching those targets. - Senior management does not have any contact with "normal" employees - concerns being ignored by both normal managers and senior managers. - Extreme stress level on team not being addressed nor any of the complaints from employees. - Extremely hard to get meetings with manager, as they are either out of office unexpectedly, in meetings very often or just don't "have the time". - Very hard to get days off from work, have to almost beg for it if there are other people off in any days already. - A high amount of micro management - everything is being controlled, to the point where you almost get nervous to do your job as there will always be something they will point fingers for. Even if it is for being a few seconds too long on a call. - Unfair workload for different departments - some take a few calls a day, while others take up to 10-20 times more. - Short lunch breaks. - Standard office building; no pool tables or games rooms to socialize with colleagues.

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Pros

I am inspired by the technical expertise I see at the leadership level. People are collaborative. And the work is really interesting.

Cons

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4.0
28 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

Cons

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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