Company: Apple
Date: 2012-01-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Good work experience; retail always sucks no matter what
Pros: - Having "Apple" on your resume is great
- Working as a Genius is about as good as you can get short of store management
- Getting to play with awesome new technology
- If you get along well with people, you earn the respect of management and are more free to make decisions
Cons: - Growth of retail stores means every day is hectic
- Too many new people get hired and on-boarding process is laughable
- Burnout rate is high among good Geniuses - most of the good ones ending developing something cool and getting a job somewhere else
- They used to pay Geniuses a lot more
- Management teams are hit/ miss (and the managers rotate sometimes across teams, so one manager that you get along with might be in charge of a different team next quarter)