Company: Apple
Date: 2015-05-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Be sure you drink the company Kool-Aid
Pros: There are a lot of pros to working at Apple:

Amazing benefits (why most people stay)
401K match up to 6%, great vacation, medical benefits are pretty good, lots of product discounts. Dress code is very relaxed. You can basically wear almost anything with your Apple shirt. Care-free about tattoos and piercings.
Cons: APPLE RETAIL IS A VERY POLITICAL WORK ENVIRONMENT.

If you do not drink the kool-aid and play the political game, you will either wash out or be overlooked for any type of promotion. The retail store managers love playing favorites and they have their hand-picked successors already thought out way before any interviews for promotions begin. Store leaders are competent people, but some visions of what running a retail operation is like are very skewed. Management promotions are few and far between and they love bringing in external hires for management roles. Don't expect to fast track to any promotion here. There's people at my store who have been in the same role for 3-5 years with no growth in sight. Also, the pay could honestly be better. It's great that they pay pretty well for retail, but with no commission coupled with the amount of idiotic people we deal with on the daily basis AND the fact that Apple made $18 BILLION last quarter, you should be paying your people way more.