Company: Apple
Date: 2014-11-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Dealing With Ambiguity
Pros: High energy and a sense of community. I met some life-long friends there. Healthy developmental growth opportunities. Hour-long lunch break. Great discounts on Apple goods as well as third-party offers. Store meetings are always fun and informative. Excellent benefits package as well as "staying healthy" competitive challenges. I did learn how NOT to mentor/manage others.
Cons: Truly expected to lay ones life down for the good of the company. Long hours with high (sometimes unreasonable) expectations. There is no life outside of Apple. Although it tries to represent itself as a big company with a small business approach, the longer I was there the more I realized how much it is a huge corporate entity and I was just a number. Hard to get promoted within the company unless one is driven toward corporate. Managers, Store Manager, and General Manager have their own approaches and agendas. Be ready for many management changes, including upper such as Store and General. With so much turn-around and transfers, it becomes harder and harder to feel complacent (of which is a word meaning "death" in the eyes of Apple).