Company: Apple
Date: 2014-08-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Apple
Pros: There are many great reasons to work for this company.  The benefits are fantastic and the pay is very competitive.
Cons: The cons of working for this company are many.  If you want to have an opinion or idea to be heard then this company is not for you.  The company often turns a deaf ear to anyone who is not from the walled gardens at their Cupertino campus.  Management will pretend to listen to your ideas but your ideas will actually never reach the top and if they do make it there they will be passed over and be re-introduced at a later time as some one elses.  If you are someone who does not want to fit into a cookie cutter mold then this company is not for you.  While the company praises it's "unique nature", this is a facade.  The company trains you like the military to act, think, and speak like a programmed robot.  The company wants everyone to be the same and come from the same cookie cutter.  If you are independent stay away from this company at all costs.  If you do not live and breath Apple and are not a fan boy do not bother applying.   This company does not value diversity in regards to ideas.  If you do not think, act, and talk like everyone else this is not the place for you. Apple does not value differences.  If you are fat, shot, ugly, or have any other outward awkward attributes that do not fit into their unspoken model, do not apply.  The company is riddled with inept systems that are continually breaking down.  The communication between executive management, mid level management, and employees is abysmal.   I have worked for both sides of Apple (Corporate and Retail).  The work life balance is horrible if you are working in the retail environment and if you are working it corporate it depends if your superior likes you or not.