Company: Apple
Date: 2017-12-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

More sales-y every day.
Pros: Great people
Ok pay once you get to Genius level
Some stores have lovely layouts
You get certified training that to other companies is seen as an amazing thing (only as a Genius)
Feedback culture 
You’ll make friends for life 
Great free food on occasions 
Stocks programme
Health and dental care packages
Cons: Some stores have terrible layouts
Products and software for use on the job don’t work often 
Metrics based work, and getting even more metrics based as the years go on
Progression can be slow unless you talk about the role you want every day and badger managers
Very high pressure 
Emotionally draining
Physically draining
Sometimes people don’t even get a chance to drink water unless they’re on their break
A lot expected of you
Culture can be a lacking feature although this can be said of many companies but Apple could still do better
Shift patterns are all over the place and your body never knows when to sleep (only in certain stores that are open long hours)
Business expectations have changed dramatically over the past two years and people are being paid less and everyone in the store is expected to be a sales person driving business and goals for the business even if it’s not relevant to the customer in front of you
Micro management from other employees working hard to get a promotion
Training used to be amazing and now it’s the worst I’ve ever seen/done
Less quality hiring which means less quality work overall
You are the face of having to charge customers ridiculous prices for repairs and telling them it’s going to be a long time to repair it too and you’re still expected to make every customer happy 
You get marked on customer feedback even if there’s nothing you could have done to make the situation any better