Company: Apple
Date: 2013-09-29
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Retail is Fantastic Day-Day, but beware Anxiety Ridden Culture for Management
Pros: Never boring, amazing customers, incredibly fast-paced, outrageously generous perks to part time and full timers, great professional development training for ASLP Associates, FUN culture!!!!  Move over to call center type positions within corporate is possible i.e. Apple Care support reps.
Cons: You will not go from retail to corporate headquarters, period. Employee development helpful for your next job, but purely a retention tool and not meant to help you advance within Apple. Indescribable anxiety throughout company- a little bit like middle school with the he-said, she-said over analyzing of employees. Lots of talk about ownership, but no trust and none given to employees. Depending on store, management can be very top-down and condescending. Hire incredibly smart people, but treat them like children. ASLP program great in concept, but still developing. Family Room testing on employee morale- time limits on repairs very idealistic and the customer experience suffers as a result.