Company: Apple
Date: 2015-01-07
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Management is clueless
Pros: Benefits include decent discounts on products. Good employee paid benefits & extras including healthcare/RRSP's etc.
Cons: When I started with Apple in early 2011, it was a very different culture than it was when I left in 2013. Apple was a place that encouraged individuality, growth & creativity. They also listened to concerns, helped to take steps to find solutions & act transparent with most issues and challenges. This quickly changed as Apple shifted gears towards more aggressive tactics to satisfy its growing customer base. Because of Apples phenomenal growth and Apples stubbornness to simply hire more employees, they instead overwork the ones they have to absolute capacity until they either quit on the floor (happened to four employees in less than a year), or take a stress leave. It turned to an environment which instead expected perfection at every move. Having a sick Dad and a death in the family is not good enough for this company... They expect you to suck it up and be a robot. They foster an environment where employees actively give each other feedback, however fail to notice when senior employees abuse this and instead bully & verbally abuse newer employees who may not know better.