Company: Apple
Date: 2017-02-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Takes everything you have and then some to be great.
Pros: Coworkers are absolutely fantastic. Everyone is interesting, intelligent, and brings something unique to the table. 
Learning about the new products from an inside perspective is fun. No, we really don't learn before they're announced. 
Some customer interactions are incredibly fulfilling and leave you feeling very moved. These devices are important to them. I firmly stand with apple in that aspect of their vision. Those experiences are special and what make the job worth doing.
Cons: Overtime is NOT permitted. We're reprimanded for staying half an hour later but then aren't able to leave early another day to rectify the overtime. It's frustrating. Apple has enough money for occasional time and a half. 

There is a language you must speak if you want to have developmental conversations. There's a guide for this language that isn't discussed. It's accessible, but it's such a bizarre part of the management culture. We're all expected to know this language and if we do not speak in such terms our points are cast aside and our voices are not heard. We're also reprimanded for not using said language. 

Though we are paid slightly above other retailers, there is so much more involved that it's insulting to call us just retail workers. I've worked retail many times prior to apple, and it's a different ballgame entirely. As a whole, we are not paid enough for what we do. We're overworked, exhausted, and disenchanted. Apple has neglected their people over the past year in a massive way. It's heartbreaking.