Company: Apple
Date: 2015-07-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Decent for a while
Pros: Depending heavily on the individual store, the management can be great or terrible. The under-management level employees are usually pretty great, with some sour grapes here and there.
Cons: If you get lucky and end up in a store where management treats you well and you get along with your coworkers, the job essentially becomes a waiting game. Waiting to get promoted to Genius/Creative, or waiting until you get something better. The customers are typically the worst part of any retail job and it's no less true here. Lots of entitled people, lots of angry people. You get cool people once in a while but dealing with these types of people for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, is very taxing and will take a toll. Don't believe the spin about moving up the ladder at Apple - except in extraordinary circumstances, you will work as an FRS until you leave. You can sometimes get lucky and move up to Genius/Creative, but the likelihood of going further than that (and even at Manager, you kind of max out) is not to be believed.