Company: Apple
Date: 2020-01-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Retail
Pros: Easiest job ever. Just know what to say to angry customers and how to fix things. Strange customers liven up the day.
Cons: Mind numbingly boring retail. Retail is retail no matter how you put it. Inefficient store setup and processes that take forever to complete. Good job for dimwitted people. Even managers would give one-off plain robotic corporate responses to meetings or questions. It's like everyone has one single functioning brain cell. They don't divulge personal life or do anything interesting with their life in general. Repeat the same stale processes or answer technical questions over and over. Customers come in thinking they can yell at you to get what they want. Or they think they know your job better. Management has nothing better to do than hover over their subordinates and nitpick/lord it over. Type A personalities that love to stick it to you if you do anything wrong in their eyes. You can't disagree from their collective opinions. You're being watched all the time. They espouse that "we're all family" and constantly repeat the desired belief in the cultish "Apple values" a la carte quotes every-major-company-ever uses to lure in its employees' brand loyalty. Pay is terrible considering it's a multi-billion dollar company. Zero work life balance. They'd rather you make them your #1 priority over school, family, and home.  Apple is a shady company exactly like everyone else. Just with more profit off the brainless public. If they have to repeatedly insist they are "different" and that "they're family" they're saying oxymorons. No upward movement. People that worked there for years made the same pay as I did when I barely started. If Apple can take advantage of your work, blind loyalty, time, and take over your life they absolutely will. Perfect for type-A personalities that care too much about what others are doing.