A roller-coaster - Specialist Apple Employee Review

4.0
Jan 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They really do seem to hire the absolute best people you can find. Everyone is genuinly nice, and very talented in their own way. The amount of knowledge you gain is astounding, and a lot of unique and cool opportunities to take advantage of compared to other retail jobs. Also being able to do things that you enjoy outside of work as part of your job is a bonus.

Cons

The leadership team is often the least knowledgeable on anything, often leaving you with nowhere to turn. They attempt to brainwash you as well with a lot of Apple-isms and if you go against anything you will fear for your job. The way promotions are given out is very sneaky and strange. They usually tell the person they want to have a promotion way ahead of time, and then act as if everyone has a chance. I've seen it happen with every promotion, even with myself. You have to pretend you don't know anything, and watch your friends interview for a position they've already given away. Very odd.

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Pros

Great communication and will really help you and guide you during training

Cons

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4.0
Aug 28, 2014
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Pros

We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

Cons

ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just don't lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DON'T care

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