Company: Apple
Date: 2018-08-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Cool to work at Apple, but Retail is still retail
Pros: Great company to work for, nice benefits such as discounts on products and fitness reimburstment.
Cons: Retail stores can be a crazy busy place to work. Some stores, such as the one in Amsterdam is understaffed. This leads to high turnover and a high sickness rate. 

Other downsides is the scheduling, due to long opening hours there is quite bad work life balance. It can happen that you have a late shift on tuesday, early on wednesday, late on thursday, early on friday. Because of this it is almost inpossible to create a social life or to commit to things such as teamsports. 

It can also be difficult to take holidays or even a weekend off. Since the schedule is made 5 weeks in advance a last minute birthday can be a nightmare to attend since taking time off is no longer possible. The so called shift swap system doesn't work, and often employees have to manually search for people who are able to change a shift.