Company: Apple
Date: 2016-04-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

No more Apple juice. A Peek behind the curtain.
Pros: Benefits package:
• $100/ mo Wageworks
• Employee Stock Plan
• 401K 50% (match up to 6%)
• Medical/ Dental/ Vision
• Life insurance/ Accidental death
• Dealer rate cell phone plans 
• $500 computer credit every 3 years
• lots more
Cons: • No work/ life balance
• Poor work schedule and poor shift flexibility
• Work holidays and weekends and may close store and then open next day. 
• Managers full of themselves and do nothing all day
• Managers Micro-manage and nitpick so they look good
• Feels like a mix of High School & Survivor
• No longer required to certify skills so anyone can do the job. 
• Very few re-usable/ transferable technical skills
• Little to no repair time for Genius'
• All day at the Bar dealing with customer service issues 
• High employee turn around especially from Genius team
• Lack of Development/ Growth for Genius' 
• Managers and Leads play favorites for promotions and advancement. 
• No in-store HR staff anymore. Managers handle HR issues. 
• No recognition or acknowledgement, but quick to provide critical/ negative feedback. 
• If you come from a technical background this is like 2 steps backwards because you won't use or utilize many of those skills. Everything is cookie cutter tech. It's like being a drone with lots of repetitive work. 
• Poor pay in relation to the work and stress involved and the lack of work/ life balance. 
• Rewarded with free lunch for Record Breaking Quarters while managers get incentives and Bonuses. 
• Apple Culture replaced in retail stores with NPS scores and daily completed sessions. 
• Not meant to be a career.