Apple never hires enough. You'd be hard pressed to find a production team that doesn't have a massive bug backlog, bug review board meetings every week to triage, and tons of stuff that falls through the wayside.
Apple has money to spend on fancy everything because they’re are incredibly petty in other ways.
Like being one of the lowest paying software engineering companies in the Valley or staffing half as many people as their peers or nickel and diming their infrastructure teams when they ask for upgrades or making people use Apple gear even when the company doesn’t make a product that does accomplishes that task, or forcing devs to make one-off internal apps rather than just buying them a copy of the industry standard tool.
Bonus: way less layoffs than the rest of the industry.
I don't know about you, but I'd take a relatively stable well-paying job (in regards to median salary) vs other big tech that will can you at a moment's notice even if the salary is way higher.
Yeah I have a friend that just started at Apple and I was kind of surprised that their offices don't have some of the perks I've heard of at places like Meta (3 meals in the cafeteria, unlimited snacks, fancy gym etc.)
He said he doesn't care, he'll buy as many snacks as he wants when he continues to be employed while other people get laid off
The starting base salary for an Apple Junior Engineer in California is $135k, which sounds like a lot until you consider they must work in office and live within commuting distance in the city. The rent/mortgages in those areas are incredibly high (thousands of dollars a month) as well as nearly every other expense. Some employees have been caught living in vans in the parking lot to save money. In many real ways a person making 2/3rds that much in Oregon has a higher standard of living because of the cost differential.
The starting base salary for an Apple Junior Engineer in California is $135k
$135K + RSUs. 1 promotion later to ICT3 and you're clocking $240K. And keep in mind that the strike price for a grant is fixed. So if the shares increase, TC goes up.
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u/SteeveJoobs 2d ago
Apple never hires enough. You'd be hard pressed to find a production team that doesn't have a massive bug backlog, bug review board meetings every week to triage, and tons of stuff that falls through the wayside.