Company: Apple
Date: 2017-03-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great local culture, but probably best for current undergrads
Pros: Atmosphere in general is great. The staff there is highly diverse, allowing you to constantly interact with literally hundreds of incredibly interesting people. Store management legitimately seemed to care about the employees, going so far as to put their own careers on the line to defend their own.
Cons: There is a strong emphasis on generating excitement for the Apple brand and culture that can at times be borderline "drinking the koolaid". While local management was great, interactions with corporate management showed a side of Apple that was markedly not... Apple-like, particularly when it came to throwing employees under the bus and focusing entirely on spreadsheet numbers rather than customer experience. 

Considering that you could be selling well over $1 million in revenue every quarter, the wages were pretty subpar, especially since there is no commission. Annual reviews with fractional salary increases provided little opportunity for your performance to be appropriately recognized and rewarded.