Company: Apple
Date: 2014-03-03
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great company, great people, bad middle-management
Pros: As retail jobs go, this was pretty fantastic. My day-to-day was amazing. I had to pinch myself that here I was getting paid to advocate for and empower people to use these amazing devices. Really fun. Very dynamic. Co-workers were amazing and fun. Good pay.
Cons: The ONLY issue I had was with the adversarial relationship we seemed to have with middle-management. Small things like consistent scheduling/goals seemed to be manipulated deliberately to induce fear and frustration. Any success my co-workers experienced moving up the ladder to corporate was despite the best efforts of of store management. A few made it, and it was exclusively by circumventing store management. Especially frustrating given the rosy picture painted for us by the guidelines about growing people.