Company: Apple
Date: 2012-11-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

It's still retail.
Pros: -Better pay than many retail jobs.
-Lots of cool coworkers with a diverse range of talents (professional photographers, artists, designers, musicians, teachers, etc.)
-Get to be part of the Apple craze, if that's your sort of thing.
-Fairly flexible hours.
-Good benefits, even for part-timers.
Cons: -It's still retail.
-No commission or bonuses for sales people, even if sales exceed $1million in a year.
-VERY busy almost all the time. Becomes stressful.
-Limited pay jumps with role changes (from sales to iPhone tech support, there is no raise at my store. From iPhone tech support to "Genius," it's about $3/hr)
-Management doesn't manage well. Lots of micro-management. Difficult to get help from management when needed. They all know they have to suck up to the Store Lead, which affects their ability to work FOR the other employees.
-Working on weekends and holidays (there's a blackout around winter holidays, so traveling over Christmas is not likely, for example)
-Some stores are 24 hours, which means you might have to work some very strange hours.
-Not a lot of chances for advancement.
-No tangible rewards for good work, generally.
-Small annual raises of about 3-5% of your wage.