Apple reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(43,128 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43,128 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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43K reviews
2.0
Feb 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This post relates only to corporate sales, not Apple stores, and not working for Apple Corporate in Cupertino. As an account executive, the group (e.g. Higher Education, K-12, Corporate or Channel) you work for makes a huge difference. The products are great, and the benefits are great. Customers love the products, and hence generally want to work with you. It's a company you can take pride in at the high level.

Cons

Most of the sales managers have been in their jobs for 10-20 inside Apple. My manager was promoted despite having no experience working outside of Apple for the last 20 years. The "good old boy" network was in full swing. There was zero tolerance for "out of the Apple box" approaches business development, which is highly ironic for a company known for innovation. Our team brought proven concepts borrowed from other industries, with documented ROI, yet every attempt to improve processes was crushed by people who had been in their jobs far too long. To make things worse, very poor performance is tolerated if the employee is a manager "favorite", while top performers suffered. Many members of our group went for several years without a performance review, which then eliminated their chances for salary increases and promotion.

5.0
Feb 26, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You work with some of the brightest, smartest, most creative people you will ever meet.

Cons

Project secrecy can be a hindrance, but also adds to the allure of working at Apple.

4.0
Feb 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The best reason to work at Apple is there were some open box sales for employees in addition to the employee discount. The employee discount was limited to like one or two big purchases a year. It was at least 25% off if remember correctly. Opportunity to advance was made known and could be initiated. I was under the impression you could end up at corporate if you kept your focus. The retail environment was very positive and productive

Cons

I would have to say that the benefits are poor for part time employees. They really only hire part time employees and the couple of full time positions are for aspiring management. Nothing wrong with that per se, it is smart considering they are publicly traded. There was a lot of pressure for achieving numbers at the store and from corporate and this is pushed on down. It wasn't done in a negative way but there is a lot of rah rah rah and negative people really won't do well there (I was fairly negative at the time and didn't really last to be honest) but if you love Apple it is a fun retail environment and you will love your colleagues. SO many Apple geeks!!! In addition I would say that there seemed to be ample opportunities for trainings and moving on up, however you had to take the initiative because no one was going to hold your hand through it. You have to raise your hand and take the first step, which was encouraged of course.

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