Apple Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Apple full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Stick with them and they will treat you golden. Very nice company to work for.

Cons – Apple will turn into your life. You will join the cult and converge to all of their products. You will want to buy everything and spend money from all of the discounts you get!

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on with the Employee appreciation and fun activities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Apple part-time for less than a year

Pros – Staff was always friendly, and I enjoyed the upbeat atmosphere. It was always busy and I had a lot of practice with the customers.

Cons – The staff is a bit cut throat, fighting for sales. They also barrage the customer.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Apple full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, they are better than any other I have seen, EVER

Cons – The retail part of the company is a grind, while corporate jobs are more enjoyable.
Difficult to move vertically within the company. Most of the hiring is done externally.

Advice to Senior Management – Develop your internal talent. Encourage promoting from within. Continue the great benefits and never lose focus of taking care if your most important asset, your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great company, great employees, overall great experience.

Cons – Can be limited career opportunities working on the retail side.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to interact more with employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Apple part-time for more than a year

Pros – Amazing place to work for obvious reasons. You get what you put into your work and can move up if willing to work hard

Cons – I worked at an Apple store in a huge city so I am not sure if same pro above relates to smaller stores

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Apple part-time for more than a year

Pros – Friendly environment, flexible times, benefits, discounts, great people, approachable management, fun, relaxed

Cons – Room for advancement doesn't seem to be dictated necessarily by performance, but by who is a bigger 'suck up'.

Advice to Senior Management – Set more realistic expectations in terms of advancement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Apple as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Work part time while attending college and great benefits.

Cons – No cons come to mind at the moment.

Advice to Senior Management – No Advice to management at this time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Apple full-time for more than a year

Pros – I enjoyed working at Apple since there was purpose (a Unix-driven OS with a great front-end GUI, consolidated Sony-like "family" of product-line, a strong leader (Steve Jobs), and of course great success in the retail market, a good framework for designing software.)

Cons – The negatives for Cupertino are many. It is part of a largish valley that has bad air,
immense traffic, horrid housing and rental costs, and a cultural milieu which has
aggressive immigrants raising housing and rental prices, on-purpose. The area
is essentially unaffordable!!! The "boutique towns" along the peninsula do not
impress. The East Bay is dangerous. It is hard to find a place to relax in the "Bay Area".

Advice to Senior Management – Divest yourself of your large bonuses and options/restricted stock units and GIFT them to your employees for you are NOTHING without them!!!! Renounce your too-high salaries and take
$1 per year!!!! Be like Jobs and stop following his advice to not be like him. That's fatal for the firm!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Workplace is awesome, people are awesome!

Cons – Work schedules and most people are contracted so no benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Hire on directly faster instead of waiting till contract is over

Former Employee – worked at Apple part-time for less than a year

Pros – Good experience, looks good on resume, better pay than most college jobs, benefits, work from home

Cons – Very little time to relax, non stop calls, deal with angry customers, stressful situations

Advice to Senior Management – Once school started the team started to get distant and no longer felt like a team environment. Find a way team members can interact and stay close together during the school year.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend