Company: Apple
Date: 2016-07-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

One of the best retail spaces to work in.
Pros: Some of the nicest people I have ever met. Only disliked one person in 5 years. Great benefits, chilled atmosphere and excellent products which sell themselves!
Cons: It's retail. Retail is relaxed, surrounded by great people and above all safe in terms of a pay check and emotional energy spent on a daily basis. It will drag you down into a pit of self perpetuating despair, littered with moments of unbelievable ambiguity and nonsensical ideas. If you are a creative person, then you in particular will have a hard time of it. You will be constantly caught between a deep monotonous cesspool of anxiety and the belief that helping someone choose a Bluetooth speaker has somehow justified spending 8 hours on a shop floor where 3 5ths of your wages have gone on rent, bills, food and travel before you even get home. When you get home the excitement really begins, a quick meal, a quicker shower and your off to bed before you have to get up and do it all again. At least it's a regular wage you may say, and that's true in part, however the hours are anything but regular, you need to have nearly open availability across the 4 or 5 days and this can lead to 7am-4pm or perhaps 11am-8pm or perhaps a nice 12.30am-9.30pm. Or maybe all of them at random ever changing intervals throughout the 3-6 years that you trudge through in order to hopefully find what it is that you really want to do in life. And I sincerely hope you enjoy your time at apple (should you choose to accept a job there) and I honestly hope you find your true calling in life and after a stint in retail you will undoubtedly appreciate a job you truly love more than you ever thought possible. Good luck.