Company: Apple
Date: 2016-03-29
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great job, but with caveats
Pros: As a retail job, pay is far in excess of what most other retail jobs are likely to pay you. Most of the people I work with are also people that I happily call friends outside of work. Overall great work environment (at least up on the sales floor, can't speak to the service area in the back). Additionally, the fact that the company provides healthcare benefits, edu reimbursement and other benefits even for part timers is pretty awesome.
Cons: Career progression is scattershot at best, and if you start in retail your chances of progressing to corporate are slim at best. Apple seems very averse to promoting from within, so don't expect to move to far up the chain. Advancement prospects are mostly lateral with one to two steps up afterward. Chances of going to management if your not hired as a manager are low. I think at lot of this depends on the store as well. I work in a larger store with a large management team and every so many months they change my review manager, and all of a sudden all the goals I was working on seem to take a 180.