Apple Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – You get the opportunity to enrich and transform lives with some of the coolest technology known to man.

Cons – You can burnout because a passion does not always seems like work but certain positions require you to constantly go over and above when it comes to your time and personal life . . . you have to make apple your life.

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – one of the best reasons to work for apple is that it has a really creative, young, energetic culture. i think a big part of it is that the company makes really awesome market-leading products that people get excited about months in advance of release. whenever a new product launches, people who work at apple get really excited, and there's a certain amount of pride associated with being a part of this company. another cool thing is that i think that the senior management share a pretty common vision of what the potential of their products are, where they want to take the company, etc.

Cons – a secretive environment and ridiculously busy people

Advice to Senior Management – n/a

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – paid training, great people to work with (aside from management), paid training

Cons – lack of communication between departments, constant internal policy changes, promotion through popularity or politics

Advice to Senior Management – learn to be leaders, real leaders inspire and foster an environment of growth, trust, and workability, not miscommunication, criticism, and reactivity

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – If you're lucky you get to work on cutting edge products. Employees are generally happy to be working at Apple which creates a positive environment to work in. Free Apple products.

Cons – As with any company that produces ground breaking products, hours can be long and work stressful. They seem to favor handing out stock options over cash bonuses which is great when the stock is going up, but cash would be nice.

Advice to Senior Management – Management is doing a great job

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – Information is shared all the way down to the lowest levels. For example, when I worked in manufacturing in the nineties relatively sensitive information about sales, forecasts, and new products were routinely shared with the lowest level worker. In addition information about salary guidelines up to the director level were readily available to all employees.

The ability to move horizontally in the company is fairly easy. It is not uncommon for a person to have had jobs within the company in several different distinct groups. For example a New Products manager may have experience in Human Resources, Materials, and Facilities.

Cons – In general, near perfection is the assumed performance that an employee will give. As a result, significant accomplishments are often taken for granted by managers with little recognition being given to the employee. Even though the monetary recognition is there, the importance of the old pat on back is often forgotten.

Advice to Senior Management – More attention needs to be given to providing a supportive work environment. When you are expecting employees to work 60 and sometimes 70 hours a week stuffing their wallets is not always enough.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Benefits, good people to work for, great customers on average.

Cons – Secrecy, management style, transparency, or the lack thereof.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase opportunities for synergy between depts.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Passionate people, awesome products, great technology. Things aren't always done by the book, but things get done. There aren't strong guidelines in terms of procedure, just make it work.

Cons – Maniacal dictator leadership. Not particularly good at promoting a strong balance between work and personal life. Expectations (unspoken, of course) of a 50, 60, 70 hour work week are not unusual.

Advice to Senior Management – Back off the expectations of having employees work themselves to death.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Fun people; fun products. There are lots of smart people to learn from and plenty of opportunities to try different things.

Cons – Becoming more corporate; compensation is weak

Advice to Senior Management – The "change the world" feeling is going away. It's time to start paying people what they are worth. Good people are already starting to leave.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Exposure to new technologies. You will work with amazingly smart people and learn how to fix everything Apple.

Cons – Crazy retail hours, never able to make everyone happy, poor pay

Advice to Senior Management – Please pay us more, please don't expect miracles in only 15 minutes - we can't make everyone happy - customers or corporate.

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – Fun environment, good training, nice people, excellent discount. Company always seemed to care for it's employees, even at a retail level. Low turnover and company maintains high goals for moving people from Retail to Corporate.

Cons – No commission, dealing with the "iPhone public." Lot of talk of promotions, but certain lower-level management was generally slow to act. Long hours sometimes, but company was never stingy about overtime pay (all depending on your store manager).

Advice to Senior Management – Reward top selling employees more frequently. If someone can sell more than $10k/day including top metrics (at a moderately-busy store), Apple should up the perks slightly. However, most employees are hired as Mac Specialists first (sales) with the promise of moving into other positions (Genius, Creative, etc). However, those who show strength in sales are less likely to get "promoted" into those other positions because management doesn't want to take them off the floor. But if you don't sell well, you also wont get promoted either. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend