Company: Apple
Date: 2020-12-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Equal Parts Challenge and Reward - Not for everyone
Pros: The benefit package is excellent, even for part-time employees. 401k, stock options, medical/vision/dental, a wide range of product discounts, and other benefits. You get to work with a lot of high-functioning, like minded people, which means you'll make a lot of friends. The pay is competitive for a retail job.
Cons: The job is as challenging as it is rewarding - and as of late the challenges outweighed the rewards. Pay is not negotiable and superior sales performance is given little to no consideration during your 'merit increases' which are 3.5-5% per year, once a year. 

The high customer traffic, high noise, bright lights, and being on your feet for 8-9 hours can be physically taxing. Full-time work during holiday and launch season can be draining. The customers in my area were typically high-maintenance types and were often difficult to deal with.

Advancing in the company is more about playing the political game than how well your actual job is being done, which frequently results in people being advanced to management and leadership positions who do not have the right hard skills or competencies for the task. A good leadership team can really shape your experience at Apple as much as the work you put into it.