Great to gain experience, disgustingly underpaid - Mac Genius Apple Employee Review

3.0
Nov 22, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Certifications are paid for - Great for networking with people to find a new job - Non-mangers and customers are amazing - The company is great to work for if you are interesting in getting experience with various technical issues - Job security

Cons

- You reach a "glass ceiling" in this position very quickly - Paid disgustingly less to do more and more work as the company continues to grow, - A "Genius" can EASILY get paid 20-40k more for doing the same work at many other startups and companies - Retail will always be retail no matter what position you work at - The opportunity for growth is very limited - Managers will always play favorites and there are a lot of politics involved in decision making instead of skill sets, experience, and potential

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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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