Don't hope for advancement. - Specialist Apple Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed environment, relaxed attire. Freedom (to an extent) of how you can present the products. People are generally good to work with (case by case).

Cons

Management stresses various opportunities for advancement and "everyone starts as specialists", but contradict themselves by bringing in less qualified individuals from competing retail outlets for higher positions. Management has poor communication with each other. For the amount you make for the company, your salary will be significantly lower than 10%. This is demeaning.

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Pros

We work with geniuses - in every department, We create innovative products that thrill our customers and create new product categories - who else can say that?

Cons

ZERO ZERO ZERO work/life balance. Execs have been saying for YEARS that they understand and will make it better. But in actuality, it gets worse every year! It is obviously top management LIP SERVICE because if they meant it, they could fix it tomorrow. They have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank. If they REALLY cared about employee work/life balance, they could bring aboard the right number of folks to make that issue dissolve. Sick of hearing the lies. Just don't lie about wanting to fix it, when they clearly DON'T care

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