Company: Apple
Date: 2014-07-20
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Apple Was My Job, Not My Life.
Pros: For a retail position, compensation and benefits were solid.  Lots of good training and many opportunities for temporary assignments around the company.  Apple goes out of their way to seek out talented individuals who are interesting, engaging and usually fun to work with.  Products speak for themselves.
Cons: Work/Life balance can be terrible.  Even for a retail specialist, leadership constantly asked people to come in early/stay late, work days off, etc, especially around product launches.  Our leadership team was increasingly difficult to satisfy - their drive for results was bordering on maniacal, which took a lot of the Apple magic away from our store and ultimately burned out a lot of their top talent.