Company: Apple
Date: 2009-08-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Challenging and Demanding
Pros: You will work with some of the most talented, skilled and amazing people in the world, with some fantastic products. Fun, exciting environment. Great products, and for a retail store, best in the world.
Cons: That said, your work / life balance will be absolutely terrible. Managers are demanded all the time, and its on you to make sure a roll out, launch, or initiative succeeds. Often times, a day off is a joke, with plenty of emails and phone calls for follow up or other things of the sort. Apple controls communications, so often times, you're making special trips to work to do things, and due to the secretive nature of the company, you're often given very little lead time to get things in place. Rearranged schedules are the norm. PTO is a pain in the ass to schedule. Tough to see the "next move" once you've reached management, the limited number of stores is also a built-in challenge to that.