Apple Genius, Great Job but Horribly Overlooked - Anonymous employee Apple Employee Review

4.0
29 Mar 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great opportunity for hands-on experience working with new technology. Fulfilling if you enjoy helping people. Good benefits. Healthcare is through UHC unless you're in CA, which is even better for you. Reasonable amount of opportunities for advancement, with preparation and training. The kinds of people Apple attract as employees make for a wonderful group of colleagues. You get certified after training (Apple Certified Macintosh Technician)

Cons

Inflexibility in terms of work hours as a full time member. Constant barrage of upset customers. You are, after all, the customer service AND technician. Weak support from management. Poor pay in comparison to private consultants. High, sometimes unrealistic expectations from management and customers. As one of the more tech-savvy employees, you're bombarded with questions from coworkers.

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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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