Best colleagues ever but very poor management skills - Creative (Apple Store) Apple Employee Review

2.0
Jan 31, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Great products and no commission. So we could be honest to make sales - Extraordinary team workers. Always here to help and step up. Great technical skills also. - The Apple Fame - A few discounts as employee

Cons

- Management is totally inadequate. They manage high-skilled and motivated employee like if they were Starbucks seasonal part time people. - They say what matters is their people but there is absolutely no career possible. You get stuck at the position you got hired for years with a random chance to evolve (poorly). Almost NO ONE makes it from the sales floor to manager. - Starbucks/Gap/Disney management team. Like mafia, they all worked together prior to Apple. Impossible to join the gang, even if you have the best feedback and results on the floor.

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Cons

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4.0
Aug 28, 2014
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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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