Company: Apple
Date: 2013-11-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great people, great potential, not so great opportunity and really poor career development.
Pros: -People! Most people are great, passionate and really gifted. A great place to meet young talent and have fun.
-Obviously the benefits
Cons: One of the biggest company on earth if not THE one and it never made the top 100 best employers once, neither in the US nor Global. Here's why :

-Work conditions are bad. Imagine for each hundred employee you have a tiny break room, one toilet, one fridge, no place at all and a lot of stress and pressure to perform.
-Working there is like being in a black hole. This company siphons talent, time and energy dry. Then they just let you rot until you quit and they replace you.
-Salary is good compare to other places but it's really not that good when you consider everything you give in and the life quality you lose. Most people are better ending somewhere else and that's why they do. Plus the customer traffic is HUGE so the workload goes accordingly.
-Career opportunities are close to none. You can get a promotion when someone is leaving and yes, a lot of people are leaving every year but this bear questioning why?
-They work with headcounts so once the limit is met, even if the need for more employees is there, even if the metrics proves its there, they will not hire more or give any promotion.
-Not enough staff. The workload is incredibly huge and at first you are motivated to give the best of services but you understand fast enough that they ask for the impossible. They could hire twice the number of employees and still it would be complicated so imagine how hard it is now.
-Work/Life balance is bad. Part time employees will work mostly 4h shifts right in the middle of the day so it completely destroys their schedule, and full time employees will often work 8-9 days in a row including night and weekends and with only one day off in between (they have to organize with others to have 2 days off in a row).