Company: Apple
Date: 2015-09-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great benefits but no mobility
Pros: Benefits for healthcare, employee pricing, third party pricing are great. Can be an exciting place with constant change. Never boring. Hands down the best experience you will have in retail. Great starting pay with no experience as long as your cool. You will get a lot if hands on experience and see behind the curtain if a successful company.
Cons: Employee shelf life is 1-2 years. Turn over is 30% a year. Company is so successful that retail middle management hasn't got much else to do but watch over your shoulder. Since most upper level positions in retail are external hires, management doesn't know how to use the technology they expect you to sell. They work in theory only and hide behind delegation. The people are great but it makes it much harder to compete for very few advancements. Corporate uses illusion of secrecy to hide rampant disorganization between retail, phone centers, corporate, and other support mechanisms. Reviews have been boiled down to three useless measurements expected more, achieved expectations, and exceeded expectations. Some how even though daily results are met, when reviews come up, the stores poor results explain why your raise was 0-3%.