Company: Apple
Date: 2017-02-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Apple
Pros: Good starting salary. Cool people to work with. Discounts and benefits are good- fitness reimbursement, education assistance, discounts on products, etc.
Cons: Horrible work/life balance.
They don't take into account the area and the cost of living and raising wage to meet the rise of cost of living.
Management has favorites.
Not very supportive of employee's personal issues that may affect work, especially health or mental issues.
Overworking employees-working 6+ days in a row without a break, but due to scheduling starting on Saturday they are able to get away with scheduling employees long shifts for 6+ days at a time.
Not very flexible scheduling-they say they're flexible but then require full time employees be available 6 days out of the week and be available weekends, and part time employees have to be available on weekends and at least 4 days out of the week, (if you have plans to go out on weekends then good luck!).
NPP is supposed to be anonymous and not have retaliation but they schedule NPP chats to discuss why things were said, but it's more of a way to tell their employees that they're not getting better hourly compensation or that the work a Product Zone (formerly Red Zone) Specialist does is the same as a Technical (formerly Family Room) Specialist does. It's very demeaning and belittling to the work that Technicians and Geniuses have to do and all the training that they go through in order to even do the position, unlike sales which is much easier.
If you've been there for 2+ years they stop supporting you in what you want to do unless you really kiss up to the managers, and it has to be the right managers otherwise you're stuck.
Base salary for a new hire can be the same as someone who has been there 3+ years and they don't compensate for that and instead give the excuse that minimum wage at the time of hire affects that.
Partnering with Sedgwick doesn't do anything aside from make it harder for them to fire you. Management will still look down on you and tell other employees why you're on leave or what you're doing on leave, which is a violation of HIPAA.