Company: Apple
Date: 2016-04-20
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great Company.
Pros: Apple is a great place to work, especially for those who are looking to get their foot on the right track for developing personal and professional skills. You can benefit from these takeaways:

-Learn from each other.
-Great benefits! (Health/Dental insurance, 401k, stock options, public transit benefits etc.)
-Tons of available trainings for opportunities and development.
-Minimum wage at Apple is well above the minimum wage of State.
-Your team will always have your back! Work with integrity, always.
-Working with a team full of great people is always fun! You wake up knowing you can go into work and survive a hectic day.
Cons: There are only two places you can really go within Apple: Retail or Corporate. That’s it. There’s so much competition (I’m talking 60k+ employees within the company) that there’s very little room for movement. 
Management can get too focused on sales and metrics that they forget to appreciate the little behaviors at times. Days of the week can get very exhausting and repetitive. 
If you go full-time, good luck on trying to find balance in your work and personal life. You will most likely work every Saturday unless you’re luckily not scheduled or requested the day off in advance. Sometimes it’s even difficult to request certain days off two months in advance due to store meeting thresholds.