Company: Apple
Date: 2018-04-20
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Phenomenal company
Pros: The hiring/interview process is a bear, but it breeds a common mentality amongst coworkers. As with any job, there are people you’d never communicate with when off the clock, but while on the floor, those people will bend over backward to help you, because the beef between you both has nothing to do with the customer in front of you. I’ve never worked for another company where this behavior occurred regularly.
Cons: My biggest problem with the retail environment is that there is a constant push to extricate the word “no” from your vocabulary, and thus a “how to get to yes” mentality. Where things go sideways is that every manager has a different idea of where yes is, and so there’s very little consistency. Because of that, as an employee, it’s VERY confusing on what will fly and what is off limits, because it’s constantly changing (sometimes even from hour to hour). Rules and policies tend to be more of a very general guideline than a static expectation.