Not worth the stress but pays the bills. - Mac Genius Apple Employee Review

4.0
30 Jun 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Well, for instance, I wore board shorts to work today. The environment is mixed and ALWAYS lively. Due to the stress involved, all the employees tend to shrug it all off with one another, meaning they all tend to have great collective sense of humor. For those on the sales floor, the absence of commission is a great way to have team unity. For trainers, having actual time to learn at work is something that I had never heard of and for techs, the ability to make important decisions with very little micro-managing is a testament to the trust Apple has towards it's employees. At any given Apple Store you will find cheer and unity despite the stress of dealing with entitled and spoiled consumers this has much to do with the craft behind the hiring process.

Cons

At the Retail stores, as a tech, growth is minimal, albeit a unique and novel environment to occupy; the pay (which is competitive) is NOT worth the stress. To Apple's credit, the pay is actually fair but in my opinion, the demands put on the techs or Genii are not fair in comparison.

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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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