NOTE: Definitely NO OFFENSE to Apple employees or Apple fans. I'm an Apple fan myself using many Apple products. Just wanna hear honest opinions from others...

No doubt that Apple is one of the best companies for hardware engineering. My question is, for software engineering would Apple still be considered as a top tier company? Somehow my friends and I got the impressions that its software departments are not so outstanding compared with other FAANG companies.

SWEs / Leetcode users, do you mind sharing your thoughts? Many thanks.