Hi ...I have been with Apple Maps as SWE for 2 years now. The managers are so annoying and incompetent. The most incompetent management I have seen in my 7 years career. Most managers are from dreadful WITCH companies and Yahoo and they don't know jack about SWE, reliability and scalability. A LOT OF MY PEERS ARE LEAVING. SWE is bad but SRE is a big joke. All SRE does is create alerts and incident management. This is engineering abuse. Apple Maps has essentially removed engineering SRE. When it comes to SWE, there are so many teams unnecessarily created which minimizes impact of an engineer and teams. Compared to other Apple orgs, the refreshers in Apple Maps are so little. Its quite obvious as Apple Maps doesn't make any money, the revenue is tied to iPhone sales. From what I have seen Apple Maps refreshers (comp) are equal to IS&T org. I have also seen linguistic bias (community bias) in Apple Maps. I didn't believe it first in 2019 when I read few blind posts, but after working for a while and felt whatever is written on blind about Apple Maps is True. On top of that management is doing nothing to fix this. Please be careful when joining Apple Maps but the best decision would be not to join Apple Maps at all. TC: 235K YOE: 7 #apple #applebonus #faang #h1b #h1bcasestatus #facebook #amazon #aws #yahoo #nokia #microsoft #aws #google #goldmansachs #finance #square #amazoncompensation #h1btransfer #h1btracker
Then why are you still there(2 years and counting)?
Trying to get out next year after holidays. I made this post to caution people. Some engineers joined last year and were absolutely surprised and horrified by the level unprofessionalism and lies. The Management will lie through their teeth to bring you on board.
Makes sense
It’s not just bad, it’s Apple Maps bad
Please shed some light on linguistic/community bias....
Apple Maps made you take a wrong turn.
Met an Apple Map director in interview. Dude definitely couldn’t take constructive criticism even when he was the one who asked.
The refreshers won’t be given for all. It’s a luck and depending on your manager. I am feeling the same way in just 2 months
Runaway from appppllleeee
Lol - to the greatest workplace on earth ? 😜
@azrael if not the greatest then definitey way better than Apple Maps. I personally think Apple > Amazon but Apple Maps no way lives upto Apple Prestige and standard. Move from any other FAANG (even from Amazon) to Apple Maps is a big downgrade. Run away from Apple Maps …. Its a rotten Apple 😅
Can I DM you? Have a few questions .
Post your refreshers and rating dude - they have good refreshes for 8 or 9 folks
8 or 9 folks 😂😂. Apple Maps has 1500+ people (swe, qa, EM and sre) I work actively with 3-4 swe teams and those who are not part of inner circle (speak same language as managers) got shitty refreshers… like less than 25k. I got 12.5k despite meet expectations.
Meets is 6/9 - you are lucky to have gotten anything above the 3k. Please try to get to at least an 8 - it’s not that hard if you communicate throughout the year about your deliverables