Company: Apple
Date: 2017-10-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Business Managers are no more
Pros: A place to belong for those that are focused on innovation, inclusion, and leaving the world better than they found it. The amount of social justice issues the company CEO Tim Cook takes head-on continue to inspire me today. My years at Apple will always contain some of my fondest memories and strongest relationships.
Cons: Retail leadership goes through many ebbs and flows and seems to stifle the career growth of these incredibly talented leaders. Focus is contained in maintaining ranks within retail and developing retail leaders, even if their individual skillsets would be more applicable in more elevated roles. Even as a Senior leader within the team, I still was challenged with the lack of focus and direction that is felt on a store, market, and overall retail organization. Impactful change occurs from within and this is very rarely a focus of market-level leaders.