Company: Apple
Date: 2016-09-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Management should not come from retail
Pros: Most of the people are great, it is a great place to work if you want to relocate to another city, as there are apple stores almost everywhere
Cons: management has been poor.  I have seen store leaders berate employees in front of other staff and there is a huge disconnect from what is done at a Starbucks and what is done at Apple.  Technicians are not paid enough, in fact most of the store outside management is not paid enough for the responsibilities that are expected.  

The flat nature of the company makes it difficult to advance, and managers will sometimes make up things for you to work on in order to hold people back.

It can be fixed, but they have to promote Apple people from within, hiring outside managers puts a huge gap in knowledge and teamwork (top down management, vs a cohesive team)

I left because I don't have the patience to wait for things to get better.