Company: Apple
Date: 2017-10-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Apple are the hypemen of retail...
Pros: - Work with tech all day
 - Looks good on CV
 - Staff (not management) are cool 
 - Private Heathcare
 - 27% discount and EEP+ every 3 years.
Cons: Breath in... Breath out...
 - Numbers driven. If you think they're not because you didn't feel forced into buying a Mac, you're wrong. Mention you have a business, you'll hear about the business team. There are so many metrics and as the Manchester area manager calls 'lead measures' that you feel sick as a colleague. At times, people will listen to your conversations and mention "hey you didn't talk about AppleCare". It's a retail job though, so don't be surprised if you get targets. 
 - Store leaders only speak in numbers - I did not feel valued or regarded as a human but rather viewed as a replaceable number. 
 - Not much career progression. Where do you go when you hit Genius? There's typically one Lead Genius in a store, so unless they die or hit 66 and retire, you've got no chance of moving up.