Company: Apple
Date: 2014-02-11
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Accepting and open minded of numerous backgrounds.
Pros: Apple gave you the chance to have fun at work and work with truly wonderful people.  You get a chance to meet a number of different people on a daily basis.  If you are a people person then this is the place to work.  The pay, the company makes so much money they have no choice to pay the employees well.
Cons: It's kind of like high school, there can be groups of people that are similar in taste, but that can happen anywhere.  Unfortunately, there is a little bit of naivety and unrealistic looks in the real world.  There is a phrase, "Drinking the Apple Juice."  Where you get so imbedded that you believe the company can do no wrong and is the end all be all.  It isn't, it's retail and definitely not real life.  
With this comes an attitude that the managers kind of look at the employees like they are children.  They try and assign busy work instead of respecting people's individual talents, skills, and rolls.  Many have developed a my way or the highway scenario, which doesn't get companies or employees on the right path.  If you want to be respected as an individual and welcomed, you'll be ok.  If you want to be seen as an individual with ideas being recognized on a daily basis, then you'll have to suck up and never speak your feelings if it's against the popular opinion.