Company: Apple
Date: 2015-06-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Game of Phones (iPhones...sorry, so cheesy smh)
Pros: Culture, People, Products, Training and Development - 
Working for Apple starting out and most of your experience will profit you some of the best people and experiences you've ever met. You will use practical skills, best practices and rhetoric for every work environment/situation you have moving forward. Plus, Apple looks amazing on your revenue. Starting pay for a retail employee is insanely awesome as well.
Cons: Management, Incentive, Talent Acquisition, Accountability, Positive Intent, Business Conduct and Politics - 
You will see a massive discrepancy between external hires and internal hires. There is a serious culture at Apple - its quite beautiful actually - and those who don't come up in the proper channels tend to push that aside for their own previous workplace habits and behaviors - which creates a huge divide. Positive intent and feedback are a huge part of the internal success at Apple - most Managers do not adhere to this - you are sized up and a decision of who you are is made and it is very hard to break that, very unfair. If you are talented, motivated and work hard you will find out fast what the ceiling looks like in great detail. You will be made to feel like you're in a bad relationship, where when you reach out to your management for support or recognition they push a bluff in your face of saying, "maybe you should take your talents elsewhere then." Can lead to resentment, feels of being unappreciated, overworked. ALL THE MOST TALENTED VALUABLE PEOPLE WILL LEAVE BECAUSE OF THIS. The way to move up is to be political, that is a proven fact. Also, prepare to have all your holidays cut short because you are retail. Remember - Apple transcends retail - until you hold them to it.