Great company and benefits, but no advancement for non-management in retail - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

3.0
17 Apr 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Exciting and innovative products. Customer appreciation for exceptional service in most instances. Excellent benefits.

Cons

Virtually no opportunity for advancement in career within retail unless you have come in as senior-level management. Easily typecast into level hired. With rare exceptions, retail management is typical of other retail companies - too much politics and crap. Retail customers are aware of company's desire for market share and growth by exceeding customer experience of competitors, and some will use that to smear an employee that does not give that customer what they want. Even then, they may complain and become a "detractor".

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Cons

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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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