Company: Apple
Date: 2014-10-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Not Your Typical Retail Gig
Pros: You work with some amazing, talented, and intelligent people. The hiring process is fairly rigorous, so you get coworkers who are pretty interesting, outgoing, and creative. The products for the most part sell themselves, although you do have to do some work to sell add-ons such as AppleCare or other memberships. Fast paced (could be a pro or con depending on personality) and upbeat workplace.
Cons: Sales numbers and metrics are tracked and while it depends on your store's managers, you can either feel very pressured to perform or not. The customers can be pretty hard to deal with, there are certainly good ones, but the bad ones are REALLY bad. There is also pressure not to call out sick or miss work days as the stores are pretty busy. Unless you're very lucky, you will be working most weekends for sure. I have known a few people who have worked out getting weekends off, but it's not common.