Company: Apple
Date: 2019-12-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A Great Company... but still retail
Pros: Apple has an amazing culture and is a really cool place to work at. The job comes with great pay, benefits, and career trajectory. You can wear anything to work as long as you have the Apple shirt on. Everybody is very open and liberal. Opportunities to advance in a retail role are open, but not for jumping into corporate.
Cons: Retail, and especially Apple Retail, is exhausting. Apple Stores are busy nonstop. From the moment the doors open in the morning, customers are already waiting outside. The high demand requires management to schedule you very frequently, even as a part-time worker. It feels okay at first, but it drains you and then asking for time off takes at least 3 weeks to take effect for even a single day if it's available. Most of the time, these days requested off have to be requested at least 3 months in advance because other employees will request those days already. It is not flexible at all and working with management to take time off can be frustrating. There are frequent depressed employees that are just worn down from this nonstop environment, but do not leave because the benefits/pay is too good. On top of all of this, advancing from a retail position to a corporate position is impossible and is unheard of. If you're end goal is to work Apple Corporate and get ahead through retail, this is not the correct career path.