Company: Apple
Date: 2018-01-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great products, poor retail field leadership
Pros: Great products, environment that encourages learning and fast paced environment. The peer group is great at teaching and encouraging new technology. Working alongside talented, smart people makes you want to better yourself. Helping customers solve problems is rewarding.
Cons: Retail middle management. The cultural vision of the CEO and Retail president stops at the regional level. Everything below that is just like every other retailer. Favoritism, lack of compassionate leadership, inept HR and non-inspirational leadership is rampant. They take internal employee surveys and have some of the worst scores yet no one looks at middle management. CEO pushes his political agenda via email and those who don't like it stay quiet because of the money they make. HR makes up things as they go. There's no consistent messaging and one person can be written up for something and another can be passed over. I'm surprised there's not been more lawsuits. Sadly even while I was with Apple retail I steered previous peers away from interviewing. I didn't want them to say I didn't tell them.