Apple reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(43,041 total reviews)
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Tim Cook

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43,041 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Apple employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
May 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to help people change how they think about computers and be able to do what they never thought of doing with a computer. The best feeling is them walking out the door so grateful to Apple and you for helping make their lives better. Staff was great to work with, very helpful and always encouraging. Also, almost all the customers who come in are very humble and are great to work with. Overall, working at Apple gives me a sense of self-fulfillment in the way that I know I'm helping people enrich their lives by making the most of at least one aspect of their lives.

Cons

While there really aren't many, I think Apple needs to do a little better of a job distributing work hours among its employees and be a little more lenient when it comes to college students because unexpected events always come up. It was always tough to get hours and they kept hiring people so it felt like they were just giving hours away to new people. Also, scheduling was a bit off in the way that they usually always schedule to you have the least amount for lunch and break as possible. For instance, at 6 hours you have to take a 30 minute lunch break, so they will schedule (managers, not Apple itself) most people to work 5 hours and a half or 5 hours and forty-five minutes to avoid that.

5.0
May 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Apple is a large company with large stores, but the feeling of working in the store is not like a business, it is like working with family. The co-workers are friendly and it is always sad when one leaves, like loosing a brother.

Cons

The only downside is the occasional customer who makes life difficult by making a scene, but the management quickly and calmly helps the customer cool down, and helps everytime.

4.0
May 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The culture of the Apple Store is what made it so great to work there. Everyone was friendly and become friends and would share stories and go out together after work. If you really love the Apple products like I do then the job is a pleasure. You get a lot of satisfaction from helping others learn how to use a computer and seeing the smile on their face when they realize how simple and easy the interface is to use. A lot of customers are repeats and will ask for you by name and you start to build solid relationships with customers.

Cons

The pay isn't that great. I haven't worked their for a year now, but I was only getting 11 dollars an hour. I guess that isn't so bad considering i was 18 and 19 years old when I worked there. Sometimes you feel that you don't get compensated justly because your on an hourly wage. I would routinely outperform other mac specialist in terms of sales volume each day, but still would get the same hourly rate. There should be some kind of commission reimbursement to compensate those that sell more. Also the managers could sometimes over look your individual performance and only concentrate on sore performance.

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