Company: Apple
Date: 2014-06-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great on a resume, frustrating pay
Pros: You love most of your coworkers. Apple makes a point to hire interesting people and the training is honestly incredible. It results in my coworkers supporting me in ways that I've never known before.  I know this job will look great on a resume once I get genius, which is why I've stayed as long as I have. Health care is amazing. They pay for your metro card.
Cons: Full time employees are not allowed to have any sort of set schedule in any way, can not even request a specific day off consistently without kickback.  Leadership is passive aggressive and misleading.  They will not give you real feedback or a timeline for growth.  If you are not a genius, you are technically certified and not being paid well.  They push you to pursue "Apple quality" customer service, but are unwilling to pay you for the level of exhaustion you reach from a consistently overbooked, never-ending, NYC genius bar queue. Those receiving genius promotions are even being paid less than they used to be. It's a bummer.