Company: Apple
Date: 2012-08-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Overpromise, Underdeliver
Pros: Get to work with the BEST products, and really see every scenario imaginable in the tech world through your experience with customers, it's amazing to see how innovative people as a whole are.
Also get to work with cool personalities, who do cool things
Cons: HORRIBLE personal development...as in, it doesn't exist. Apple's super "secrecy" is used at Retail level to keep employees out of the loop of what management's plans are, and again to prevent you as a retail employee from achieving personal development and rising up to the ranks of management...you are like a wheel in the car...and if you choose to get personal development elsewhere on your own dime like i did, your managers will get PISSED., they really don't like wheels turning into drivers on their watch, you are not hired to be a driver at Apple, only "executives" can do that...and if you want to be an executive, you sure as hell better have the degrees and experience to back up your name. 
Although Tim Cook may claim "Politics Don't Exist At Apple." He is only referencing the camaraderie between the current team of 10 people who run the company, at the retail level to succeed..."you need to know how politics work, and you need to know more than 99% of others." Only then will you be able to "beat the games" that are played there, but when you figure it out, they don't want you there, because "YOU ARENT SUPPOSED TO KNOW."