Apple reviews

First level management is usually unqualified and just puppets to middle management. Usually not capable of asserting themselves when needed. Pay is average to below average compared to similar jobs with other companies. Moving up is difficult, but sideways is easy. Most people leave the company and then comeback for a promotion. Raises are mediocre when they happen, even when the company is beating records year after year and accumulating massed of wealth.

Some of the people are not nice. They're effective in what they do, but they're not nice. It's one thing to be no-nonsense, but in my opinion one can still be polite and professional about things. There's a lot of politics, too much for my taste. But that's not the real problem, the problem is they see it as, at worst, a neutral attribute, and, at best, a good feature, which is puzzling to me. The biggest problem is the lack of process. The work gets done, but it's extremely inefficient, and, as with politics, some people actually see this as a feature rather than a problem. People spend a lot of time doing things that, were good processes in place, would not even be necessary. While people are hard working and put in a lot of time, they don't stop and ask themselves if they're doing things the right way. In a way, they're "disciplined" in doing many of the wrong things. The result is they keep hiring people, and they get burned out. In the words of one manager, every project is like a "moon shot". They're proud of this, instead of seeing it as a problem. After 30 years, making products should not be anything like moon shots.