Company: Apple
Date: 2013-12-30
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

There's no sugar-coating retail, no matter how valuable the company may be.
Pros: Great benefits for San Francisco employees. Free parking and public transportation are huge pluses.
Cons: Spoiled, privileged customers, coupled with severely underpaid and overworked employees working inconsistent hours in a constantly noisy and crowded store. Along with intentionally prohibitive management on corporate career paths provides very little incentive, motivation and morale for employees to care about anything.

Tim Cook and his board runs a tight ship, makes the company profitable and has no need to care about expendable retail employees. No matter how its employees are treated, Apple Retail will always be the shining beacon to those who have never worked within its walls.

I will never work retail, ever again.