Company: Apple
Date: 2015-11-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Best in The Retail Industry
Pros: the benefits were insane. WAY better than what I'm getting at white collar startups right now.
I got to work in an environment that was full of energy, and interact with new people all the time, which meant always learning new things, which was great. Very stimulating environment, and a larger (albeit slow-moving) corporate attitude that did its best to take very good care of its employees.
Cons: Was sometimes skeptical that taking the best case of its employees it could -- for retail-- also meant taking the worst care of its employees it could get away with while still being the best place to work in retail.

Management at my Flagship store had behaviors of managers rather than leaders- they seemed unable of actually empathizing with workers underneath them, esp. part time workers. they made decisions that were best for the business without trying to explain or excuse their negative effects on the employees' livelihoods.

If you don't want to work in retail, or at HQ, the career opportunities kind of fall short. The way the ladder is built in Apple Retail, there is a lot of need for employees at the bottom of it, and not a ton at the top.