Company: Apple
Date: 2020-01-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great Benifits & People but...
Pros: I worked both and the retail and corporate environment and they are both different beasts both help build strong skills in leadership, team work, and creative thinking.

Stock and benefit options are really great and you get to work with a lot of wonderful open minded people as well as having a decent work life balance for the most part.

retail is a good place to start if you are just starting college and interest in sales or technology, so long you don't mind a bit of chaos. I do recommend corporate as it is more down to earth and open compared to retail.
Cons: Costumers are often allowed to be extremely aggressive and down right abusive which can bring a lot of stress and anxiety, especially for the technical specialists who are required to be empathetic to all they help.

It can also be hard to get full time or even move out of current roles unless you have a good connection with your leadership team or fit a certain personality type. leadership will often sway employees into roles they want them in.

hard to get dedicated training for required knowledge and often have to learn on the fly which often breeds bad habits and misinformation.

finally company's goals and values between retail and corporate often clash and causes much confusion for customers and employees alike.