Company: Apple
Date: 2010-11-13
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Kind of a Con
Pros: The benefits package is amazing.  Medical, Dental, Vision, an insane employee discount for you and your family, as well as a variety of discounts at other stores and venues.  Being a specialist is super-easy.
Cons: The Family Room Specialist position is a total con. When it was offered to me, it was referred to as an entry-level position, yet it is a position that those who start as specialists are promoted to.  The work is backbreaking, requiring a significant deal of knowledge and an ability to take abuse from customers.  You don't get to just chat with customers about cool speaker systems.  You have to deliver the bad news.  You have to be able to deal with pissed of customers,  work quickly, be creative and sharp.  It's a huge step up from the specialist position, and although it requires only a tenth of the technical skill required to be Genius, it requires just as strong an ability to work with angry, upset and confused customers with broken tech.  Yet you make less than half of what some of the geniuses make.