Company: Apple
Date: 2013-09-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Amazing people on our team, completely incompetent managers "leading" us.
Pros: I found some of my absolutely best friends working with Apple, it absolutely attracts the most qualified and interesting people, period. The technology is exciting and the company is very good at hooking you in with the "Kool-Aid". Training customers is rewarding and the pay is not at all the best, but it is much better than most full-time retail positions.
Cons: Management is awful. At the store I was at there was a complete management about a year into my time there, the new management was almost completely new to Apple and had never worked in technology before. People hired and promoted by the old management team were targeted and slowly forced out. We were forced to work with more people than the company asked us to and we were also forced to put up and air of fake happiness to "keep team morale up". When someone left they were negatively talked about openly by management and if management felt slighted, you were looked over for promotions. Promotions were almost entirely filled with outside hires, this created a negative atmosphere of broken promises and good people languishing in positions they had mastered.