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I just did some interviewing with them. I declined after a couple meetings (it goes recruiter, 1 "smoke test" phone screen, day long screening, then pms). Remember what you read about the Michael Spindler & Gil Amelio days of fragmentation, funnels, reorgs, canned projects, the head not knowing what the hands are doing ... I know apple is sitting on a lot of cash but everything felt like IBM's PS/2 days. I don't know how you appraise the value of your time, but the more I learned, the lower I placed Apple. Once you get an equivalent to the "gang of 9" working around them I believe they're fucked. YMMV, I went in with high hopes and yeah, eventually realized what I saw was the reality.

Their consumer marketing is still slick but once you pull back the cover it's a mess. Look at how they still haven't corrected their post.




Thanks for the first hand insight.




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