Company: Apple
Date: 2012-03-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

"The Most Important Thing About Apple is Our People" mantra is a lie
Pros: Constant learning
Great co-workers
Busy most of the time
Nice benefits (even for part-time)
Casual dress code
Opportunities to take on additional roles (downside = without pay upgrade)
Cons: *Pathetic* pay (and managers who act astounded if this fact is mentioned..."we are competitive with retail" is a cop out when you are expected to have the level of expertise necessary to do this job
Bait and switch in hiring process 
Opaque and mysterious process for advancement
It feels these days as though they want to squeeze more and more expertise out of specialists and build bench for family room, but keep them in the specialist pay-grade
While the company talks about how important the "customer experience" is for Apple, they are really mainly concerned with selling more stuff, so the "people first" credo for customers and employees alike seems like b.s.