Company: Apple
Date: 2020-09-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Decent for Big Retail
Pros: Their training for retail is particularly robust. I didn't find it difficult to go from training to on-the-floor, but it was a 3 day training process. They offer nice discounts and benefits available to those who are seasonal or part-time employees. You will not be able to avail of ALL discounts that Apple offers but there are quite a few you can manage to take advantage from while working there. I think your experience being a product specialist will also heavily rely on when you work at Apple and where. I was hired as a seasonal employee for the winter holidays in Los Angeles. It can be brutal with tourists bombarding you with question after question about discounts you are obviously unable to give them. I found the best people to work with to be the coworkers. They are diverse because Apple wants you to be diverse, which is nice, except that Apple's illusion of caring for diversity pretty much stops once it goes beyond the retail floor.
Cons: The kool aid drinking is beyond imaginable. It is cult like. They push real hard the sentiment that Apple is The Best Company in the World to Work For and Look At How Much We Care About Things. I think the company genuinely has more compassion that a few other tech giants but that's not saying much, to be honest. Also some of the store managers have an over-inflated ego about being store managers for an Apple store. But whatever floats their boats I guess.