"Working at Apple is the worst," former Apple employees confessed

ByChiot's Run

Apple is one of the top silicon enterprise companies in Silicon Valley, and with just having a career in Apple, many companies can take advantage of job change. Apple's former employees who are supposed to be enviable by everyone have confessed from their experiences that "working at Apple is the worst."

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◆Thorough secrecy to divide family

ByVal.pearl

Apple's former employeeRobert BododgeMr. Q & A site "QuoraAccording to the content posted to Bodidge, Mr. Bordigge had been working at the office till late at night, but for Apple 's secretive principle, to tell his wife what he is working and nothing to say I could not do it. When a business trip to England was decided, Bododge's wife asked "I would like to go with him," but his wife worked at IBM at that time, and if the project succeeded at the same time, there was conspiracy during the trip He thought that he was believed to have declined, he said he was obliged to refuse. At this time, Mr. Boddy's parents also knew about the trip to the UK, but his son did not talk about his work at all, so he may be involved in something of the US government I heard that I could not listen to the situation.

◆Forced to forget everything

ByErvins Strauhmanis

JK's wife Kim Shineberg, who developed the Intel version of Mac OS X, said that software engineering divisionSVPMr. Bertrand Sullet talks to JK when I consulted with JK "How can I prevent Mac OS X's Intel version project as anyone?" "We have to rebuild our headquarters soon to meet Apple's security standards," JK says to Mr. Sullet, "We are telling some things to my wife." Then Mr. Sullet told the unreasonable request that "Do not talk with my wife until the project is publicized and I will forget about anything about the project." The thoroughness at this time, Shineberg said "Perhaps he is"Total recallIt was enough to doubt that he had a memory manipulation device like "Hello!"

◆All actions are determined by Apple's marketing team

ByJoi Ito

According to former employees of anonymous Apple's Mac OS team posted on Quora, "Apple has extreme secrecy and a culture where decision making is driven by extreme politics and marketing and all will The decision is determined by the marketing team and two newspaper reporters. " As an engineer, IT journalistWalt MossbergThey are ordered to have features and functions that they are looking for, and they are told that they were frightened by the role of newspaper reporters inside Apple.

I never talk to anyone everyday

ByNick Long

According to Owen Yamauchi who has worked as an intern at Apple, everyone is Apple's headquarters in CupertinoInfinite loopMr. Yamauchi is separated from other interns by about 2 to 3 miles (3.2 to 4.8 km) from the headquartersVallco ParkwayHe was ordered to work on. As there is no cafe and it is a building made as a private office, even if I go to work everyday, I do not talk with anyone in a private room and I can concentrate most in my life, but the most lonely period in my life I experienced.

◆Good points and bad points to work at Apple

ByTing Cheng

According to a post anonymously to Quora, "Although there are differences according to the group to which it belongs, Apple is" pressure cooker "in general," the direction is left to imagination, but all communication is in a certain direction "Oriented", "buy compliments against rational trials, impact changes and improvements that will be brought out from the bottom with a strict top-down culture", "complain about long hours of work Do not complain about countless broken systems and how to keep better carriers at Apple that you do not try to repair, and do not forget that there are ten people aiming at their own standing position "It is self-responsibility to work at Apple.It's happiness is casual for clothes and only cafe rice is very delicious", so it is enumerated that work that is not so obtrusive It can be seen that it was content.

◆Strict control over employees

ByNicolas Nova

I worked at Intel a few years agoRichard FrancisSaid, "I felt that they are heavily controlled from Apple and that they are equally controlled" in the business, looking at the Apple employees they met during the tie-up project at the time.

◆I will be afraid of Sunday

ByJonas Seaman

Apple's former designer, Jordan Price, thought that starting work at Apple is inherently a wage cut, but he believes that he is making long-term investments by acquiring careers. Entry procedures are not in place, a very large number of accounts, passwords and logins are required, and it took one month to access the server. Also, because there was no flexibility in working hours, living where life of a daughter can not be seen on weekdays has started. Furthermore, a meeting of "necessary evil" that destroys the productivity is carried out all the time, and the colleagues are refined by keeping their own position. When noticing Mr. Price became "people who desperately desire Friday's visit" as well as surroundings, and he was afraid that Sunday will come.

◆Review column of recruitment site "Glassdoor"


In the review column of Glassdoor 's Apple, "Always work is continuing till the night, sometimes I can not get to sleep from time to time." "People work by pulling themselves and the balance between work and life is a bit different from the others. I was preferential treatment so I did not care about overtime work for several hours. "" Please allow me to move 24 hours a day for 7 days a week ".

◆New product developers can not leave Apple building

ByKhan Mohammad Irteza

An iPad developer could not get out of the company to prevent confidentiality leaks while working on iPad prototypes. In the meantime, I needed to use a room without a window, because the lock of the room was changed, no one except the four developers could enter. Even the approved developers needed to enter their name and social security number to enter the room, and iPad prototypes were drilling at the desk, connected with the bicycle cable, and it was the first time that it was not possible to carry around about.

◆Payroll may be lowered

By@ Doug 88888

Apple does not care much about salaries as everyone wants to work at Apple. Glassdoor's commentator says that one of the common complaints from Apple employees is "Annual salary". This includes Apple's retail store employees, but business experts and IT experts have also raised complaints alike. However, he said he paid much more than the average company.

◆The influence that Steve Jobs gone

ByBrett jordan

"After the death of Steve, the voices of many intermediate managers are strengthened more than engineer's remarks to exceed the limit, and emphasis is placed on conservative decisions," said Max, vice president of engineering department · Ms. Paley. "We are now hearing that any important meetings will be determined by project management and global demand management," Paley said, suggesting that priorities are changing from the old days.