Company: Apple
Date: 2017-10-11
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

An amazing experience and extensive development of personal skills
Pros: Extensive team work building skill that generate positive work relationships. 
On the job problem solving skills development. 
On the job insight of user interactions with products. 
Reinforced and encouraged development of communication skills with team members and customers
Endless resources and experiences for professional and personal development that can be used both internally and externally.
Cons: Scheduling inflexibility for students and others pursuing personal development. 
Lack of continuous training for people in the genius role. 
Lack of career pathways for people in the genius role. 
The continuous rotation of direct reporting managers reduces  the observation and awareness by managers of employees. The effects of these rotations are most apparent during the yearly review period as the managers knowledge of employees are incomprehensive, fragmented, or deficient. This lack of knowledge results in inadequate documentation of an employee’s performance and further limits or prevents that employees ability for movement within the company. 
Increased pressure around metrics of traffic and revenue versus customer experiences.
Inconsistency of guidelines from store to store, market to market with vague reasoning or rational. 
Continuous changes around procedures, policies and systems without clear rational. 
Lack of paths for internal feedback or acknowledgement of given feedback in the scope of changes in procedures, policies and systems.