Company: Apple
Date: 2016-12-14
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great company overall, Retail could use some management help
Pros: It is amazing to work for one of the biggest companies in technology history. Retail can provide you with hundreds of different opportunities for going corporate. You can even get sponsored to go and work for corporate, and they will pay for you to live at a corporate location and work for them there. This is a company that provides growth on many levels for internal employees and has wonderful benefits. Even for part-timers, Apple provides paid leave for family needs, and has vision, dental, and great healthcare. They offer 401k and stock options, as well as donating to any nonprofit you may volunteer for. Apple is fantastic to work for.
Cons: The retail management is really rough for the most part. They bring in people from other retail companies, not realizing that none of these people know what our day to day jobs are. We have to explain technology to customers daily, and yet our management knows barely anything about technology. They are simply the mouth puppets of whoever is running the "corporate values" side of Retail. At Corporate, there is nothing like this, but in Retail they discuss "competencies" and more to sound like their boring management means something. They don't care about development for each employee, they just care about their salary and making sure customers don't get upset. There are a few managers who get it, but not enough to make a difference. Apple really needs to change the way they pick their retail managers.