What It's Like to Work at Apple

Post by adaml_623 » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:17 PM UTC

msbarnett wrote: post #47

stonemetal wrote: post #42

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Yeah just like those devs at EA. If you aren't willing to sleep in your cube then you obviously are just "doing the minimum". If making gamers love you isn't what you live for then maybe EA isn't the right place for you. Poor project planing with deadlines that can't be met without 12hr days isn't the problem. Passion, that is our problem we just have way to much of it. Cause you know if we let people have friends an…

You're doing an awful lot of projecting based on one guy's account of his friend's working hours. The web isn't exactly swamped with "Apple Wives" blogs, so you might consider the possibility that this grave injustice that you're so worked up about is primarily occurring in your imagination.

I think that it's obvious that the work culture at Apple is not one of suggesting that you leave at 5:30pm.

It takes an effort by management to prevent working hours from ballooning out when people are working on long projects. It's very obvious that Apple are not doing that.

My company expects people to leave on the dot at 5:30pm. It's great.

Post by count » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:44 PM UTC

jasonjei wrote: post #8

yardie wrote: post #3

Reservists called up to active duty are put into a military-leave status and they remain Apple employees while Apple makes up the salary difference between their military pay and their Apple pay until they return. I wonder if other companies do this. I know by law they are required to keep those positions for active reserves but I don't think they are required to continue to pay their salary. In the past, I've worked…

That really is above and beyond. Aside from the fact that many companies will find you completely unattractive if you have Guard/Reserve on your resume, paying the difference to keep your existing salary while not even at Apple makes it very military-reserve friendly environment. But you'll probably still have to weigh the other working environment factors. (It's even hard for me to convince my investors that I'll be…

Leave Guard/Reserve off your resume in the future, maybe? From what I understand, it's illegal to consider that during employment decisions anyways.

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