Apple Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – Work with some of the brightest and most passionate people in today's workforce. Great culture of hard work, passion, and innovation with less bureaucracy than other large sized companies.

Cons – Certain departments are lax on reviews and feedback on areas of improvement needed. Everyone is so busy there are often times that room for professional development is put on the back burner. Apple often hires senior positions from outside the company so room for growth is limited.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on professional growth for employees to enable them to move up within the company. Deal with the fact that many employees know other high-tech companies provide larger comp packages (focus on the non-monetary benefits of working for Apple).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Apple is a fun yet challenging place to work

Cons – retail hours get hectic sometimes

Advice to Senior Management – It varies from store to store.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – Very exciting products and a bright future.

Cons – Most employees are treated as replaceable parts.

Advice to Senior Management – Employees want to have ownership but middle management is so busy managing up they don't allow workers the freedom to do their jobs proactively. Managers just don't trust their staff to make them look good to senior management... that's really your primary task.

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Free product depending on your group.

If you're truly driven by your work, then this is the place. It truly is a products, customers, and the numbers will follow sort of place.

Good health benefits, good on site benefits, subsidized good food. No matter how much vacation time you have saved up, the company still shuts down from Christmas to the day after New Years (but you might have to still work).

Cons – If you're not the type to take pride in saying, "I work for Apple" to people then this isn't the place for you.

If you can't handle ambiguity, this isn't the place for you.

If you want 9-6 with an hour lunch, 5 days a week, this isn't the place for you.

Everyone is so focused on delivering something great that the "process" isn't always reviewed, since there aren't many processes, the wheel gets reinvented.

Advice to Senior Management – Sometimes it feels like employees are always there for Apple, but Apple isn't always there for the employees. That's really the case with any big company, but Apple is so successful and so lean, I don't think it'd take much to share a little more of the success.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – Very good place to work. Great benefits, great co-workers. Most of all especially since Apple products are such a hot commodity their retail and corporate sectors has weathered the economic woes over the last few years. So... I think that explains it!

Cons – Since I work in the retail sector it's very demanding and can be very redundant. The products and services pretty much sell themselves. There's no real challenge for me at this company in my position anymore.

Advice to Senior Management – Do not make something harder than it needs to be.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – Most interesting and challenging work of my career.
Technology is ground breaking

Cons – Work load incredible
Information sharing in company is not so good

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Apple

Pros – You get a chance to work with teams where management & engineers are very Intelligent and Hard working. Go Apple :)

Cons – Certain HR benefits are less compared to other companies but other than that I don't see any other downsides of working @ apple. This is a great place to work and grow in your career.

Advice to Senior Management – Management makes all the right decisions on a timely manner and always produce products of high quality in the market. I think providing more benefits to company employees would be the advise from my side.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – Company is the greatest ever.

Cons – I wish they gave more hours

Advice to Senior Management – give more hours

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – * Beer bashes! Free beer!
* Intern Activities. They took us out to ballgames, a party boat in the bay, and other fun stuff.
* Doing REAL work. I was given an actual project to complete and demo to our VP. Awesome!

Cons – Seriously, there is no downside to working here as an intern. You'd be very very very crazy not to accept!

Advice to Senior Management – There is nothing I can think of that would help my leadership. The closest thing might be to make sure managers keep up on their intern's work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Apple

Pros – The benefits package is amazing. Medical, Dental, Vision, an insane employee discount for you and your family, as well as a variety of discounts at other stores and venues. Being a specialist is super-easy.

Cons – The Family Room Specialist position is a total con. When it was offered to me, it was referred to as an entry-level position, yet it is a position that those who start as specialists are promoted to. The work is backbreaking, requiring a significant deal of knowledge and an ability to take abuse from customers. You don't get to just chat with customers about cool speaker systems. You have to deliver the bad news. You have to be able to deal with pissed of customers, work quickly, be creative and sharp. It's a huge step up from the specialist position, and although it requires only a tenth of the technical skill required to be Genius, it requires just as strong an ability to work with angry, upset and confused customers with broken tech. Yet you make less than half of what some of the geniuses make.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop acting like counselors at summer camp. Yes, there are a lot of college-aged kids working at the store, but there are plenty of adults there who deserve to be treated as such. Also, try and hide the favoritism a little bit. Not because it makes employees who aren't favorites feel bad, but it makes you look like really weak leaders.