Company: Apple
Date: 2014-01-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Apple retail specialist
Pros: The place is great for young people as well as the creative types. Most of your colleagues will either be from an art, music or media background, which is awesome for networking and being inspired.
The environment pushes for excellence, which is also good if you have drive and are ambitious.
A good experience for anyone
Cons: Mid-management upwards is just terrible with an exception of a few. Considering that a lot of them are terrible suggest that they are put under extreme pressure from higher ups.

My take on the politics is that;
1 - Little prospects because there are so many talented staff
2 - This results in competition between peers and middle-management
3 - you are told to work hard, But hard workers are a "threat" to middle management, as hard working middle management are a threat to weak senior management.
4 - This causes extreme favoritism for the employees who just follow like sheep, working hard for no reward.

You are more likely to do well in apple retail brown nosing than being good at your job.

Don't be fooled. Steve culture only remains written on the walls. Its all about money now.