AHA Not All It's Cracked Up To Be - AppleCare At-Home Advisor Apple Employee Review

1.0
16 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Working from home -Occasionally get 45-60 minute blocks of time off phones for training. Can often do a quick load of laundry or watch Netflix while doing trainings -Moderately lenient with call offs -Customers mostly aren't completely horrible people -Pay is good for a call center job -Discount is great: 25% off all the time, plus $500 off a Mac (excluding Mac Mini) or unlocked iPhone, $250 off an iPad, OR $150 off iPad Mini once every 3 years

Cons

-Don't kid yourself, this is a call center job. A cushy one, but still a call center -Lower management can be somewhat unorganized, but from my experience it wasn't always their fault -Metrics to hit can be somewhat ridiculous unless you are ok with skimming on the experience in some cases -Reaching out to other departments for help/assistance is sometimes met with resistance from people who don't want to do their job -If you work from home, the only upward mobility is to Tier 2 or management/trainers. You will be in a customer facing position most likely unless you want to work in Austin, TX or Cupertino, CA

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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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