Company: Apple
Date: 2014-04-04
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A very fulfilling ride with a company that values its employees as much as it does its customers
Pros: The stores are always very popular, regardless of where you are, so if you enjoy interacting with different types of people, this is a place you might wanna go. Like its customers, Apple's employees come from 101 different backgrounds, so you learn to mix with people unlike you & make satisfying relationships with people you probably wouldn't think twice about. For me, the people I worked with were one of the best parts about it the company.
Cons: The stores can get overwhelmingly crowded, so I wouldn't recommend those with claustrophobic tendencies play amongst the people. As the company continued to grow, expand & evolve, the relationship between leadership & teams began to resemble a "ball & chain" like quality, which in most cases, I'm sure trickled down from the top, where the powers that be at retail spit new rules & regulations & force-feed them down the chain. This type of scenario typically played out in scheduling, where it almost became detrimental to your future with the company to have a life outside of Apple, simply because they wanted you there so often, even if you came on as "part-time."