Company: Apple
Date: 2016-12-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Specialist- London
Pros: Excellent company perks, the company provides you with so many benefits. Decent pay for retail. Amazing and talented colleagues from all walks of life. Apple recruits well and it shows in the people they hire. The occasional interesting customer.
Cons: Apple customers are very entitled and its no surprise, they get rewarded for bad behaviour. Grown adults come into stores and throw a tantrum, you say no, management says yes and so it goes.

Quite poor work life balance but you cant expect much more from retail. 

Company culture can often feel cult like and robotic. Leadership were very fake and again robotic, it is hard to get a human response from the majority, its like they read off a script. 

There was a huge shift in culture in the time i worked there it became all about targets and numbers under the false pretence that it was about the people customers and colleagues alike, it wasn't.

Once the excitement of being hired by Apple wears off, you will realise that you're just a glorified shop keeper don't let the job titles fool you going in. You are a common retail assistant undervalued and the high turnover rate is consistent with other companies. Apple retail is a separate entity you will not be treated as though you are part of the bigger corporation. 

Although the pay is decent for retail it is not decent for Apple. There are days where you will make sales in total which will more than double your yearly salary just by serving lets say 10 people in a day.