Company: Apple
Date: 2010-12-07
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

simply a huge call-center with absolutely no respect for employee.
Pros: I worked in european Apple Operation centre of  Cork for almost three years and I can say that it 'was the worst employer I ever worked for from fifteen years to now, consider that I changed six companies  since I started to work and what I have seen and felt in Apple in Cork and quite dramatic and grotesque for a prestigious company brand such Apple.
I strongly discourage anyone from working for Apple in Cork, why? here you have the main Reasons:
 
1) incompetent management does not believe in meritocracy, but only in personal friendship to give promotions, corporate policies hard, without room for negotiation and without respect for the individual especially if an employee makes a mistake.

2) unconfortable workplace old and not properly climatized, environment similar as a primary school, with games, employees of the month, fancy dresses during major holidays, mentality too badly Americanized. 

3) Career and promotions for the places most departments outside the call center is often give purely to Irish employee who do not even have exceptional ability but simply normal.

4) respect of employee: in three years I saw the apple managers dismiss an employee at least every four months with an impressive turnover of new employees all the time.

5) professional point of view in the end I guarantee you do not 'growth there, but you will only performing standard procedures such as the perfect call or the customer profiling.

I hope one day that Steve Jobs reads this message and realize who you and 'entrusted to manage the work
Cons: same as written above  (see above)