Great employees, no room to advance - Specialist Apple Employee Review

2.0
23 Feb 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Apple has an excellent hiring process, so generally your co-workers are great people who you actually want to be around. There are a few exceptions, but that's life. You get wicked benefits like stock purchase options, decent insurance, etc. Relaxed dress-code, and a lot of freedom when you're out on the floor to spend time with customers and give people a good experience.

Cons

No direction for advancement. Talent and technical knowledge is placed below sales power and general sucking up to management. If you're under 25 and want to make Genius or Creative in under two years, good luck. Too many hoops to jump through to get to where you want to be, and the rewards for doing so are not great. Pay is lackluster for the amount of BS you'll have to put up with.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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