Company: Apple
Date: 2018-06-22
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Best “part time” job I’ve ever had!
Pros: No sales goals (but you are still evaluated on performance...it’s a business after all).

Great hourly pay.

Insurance (medical, dental, vision) even for part-time employees!!!

Stock purchase plan and 401k (!!!)

Regular discount isn’t all that great, but you can get some good employee-only deals.

Always hiring. I mean it...always. 

Overall, it’s the best company I’ve worked for. It’s not perfect, but it’s really close!
Cons: Your weekly hours may get cut to an unacceptable level when the shopping season slows down. ~10 hours or less a week. 

Extremely hard to move up (there are a LOT of employees at each location, plus there are internal candidates looking for transfers to compete with). 

Always hiring. Also a con, because management is stretched so thin, that adding new people to the staff often takes precedence over the development of current employees. 

With so many people on staff, it can be next to impossible to efficiently convey information when changes happen. Things change quickly (and often), but information disseminates slowly. 

Some of the upper management (senior managers, etc.) come from management positions that don’t require them to interact with the sales floor frequently (if ever), so they can be a little “by the book” or “bottom line” in their management style. Not guaranteed to happen, but it’s out there sometimes.