Company: Apple
Date: 2013-08-07
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A lesson in how my technical expertise factors into social interactions
Pros: They helped pay for my transit to and from work, which helped me save a lot of money, they held contests to win software like adobe creative suite for free, which is an amazing chance for anyone who knows how much those products cost, and they were always concerned with my well-being as an employee...it was a huge concern to the people that I worked under that I not feel as though I was just a cog in a machine, they stressed the philosophy of the importance of teamwork and impact of employees.
Cons: Most of the cons were due to my own personality, but I was continually stressed by times when I would have to try and make meaningful connections with people who didn't understand technology the way I did. I wouldn't trade the experiences I had there for anything, and I met a lot of really amazing and interesting people, but the amount of time I had to spend explaining things to people that seemed second nature to me required a lot of patience to bridge that gap, and that's not for everybody. Sometimes sporadic nature of how my schedule shifted around got on my nerves, too.