Company: Apple
Date: 2015-01-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Fun people, great culture, lackluster management, and not really a career option unless you get to corporate.
Pros: Met some really great people, and I had a lot of fun. Some of them will be life long friends, I can tell. Starting pay for specialist has gone up since I started. You are forced to learn to think on your feet, which is a great talent to have. Benefits are awesome! Great health care even for part time.
Cons: As I said, this isn't a career, even though the benefits are great. There are pay caps for multiple positions. It can be a high stress environment. Although specialist pay has gone up, the trainers and techs get almost the same pay to start as they did years ago. They will find a way for you to work more in those positions, understaffing personnel, or overbooking appointments. This was a corporate initiative, and is across all stores. They don't like to fire people(unless it's for time and attendance), and when they do they don't want to talk about it. This leads to somewhat of a circus that veterans of Apple does have probably seen all too many times.