Apple reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(42,994 total reviews)
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Tim Cook

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Apple has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 42,994 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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43K reviews
1.0
Nov 13, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

standard big company benefits, decent discounts on gadgets, 30% sunday shift bonus, 39 hours week

Cons

be careful with the at home advisor offer, they don´t pay for the space, electricity nor heating and you´re responsible for the safety of the equipment... they lack of transparency and they tell you after a week that you won't get paid if your internet or phone are down of no fault of yours and you don't get paid if the system is down as well (happens rarely though) if this happens 5 times you loose your job they also don't give the exact description and measures of the desk chair and work area they want until a week after you join... also the only thing they reimburse is the internet and that happens with a delay of 3 months so for example you get refunded for january eventually in april...and you need to chase them be aware that you´ll be receiving calls 8 seconds after a call finishes which could drive you crazy...you don't even have time to drink water and it rings again...if you tell the manager about it...you get an aggressive face asking" so what now, think about it you can't cope with that? it´s gonna be always busy like that..." your work is simply and ridiculously judged according to customer surveys, specifically a graphic....and that could make you loose your job very very easily and don't even try to argue that it´s not your fault the customer had to wait long (sometimes up to 30 minutes -not enough advisors-) or apple has very high repair prices or even that the colleagues before you just messed up and you receive the survey.... NONE will listen...the surveys don't get deleted so no effort is really made there...which is scandalous the turn around is very very high so none is worried about firing few agents...they have 3 or more training classes in one year and they hire people from abroad so they don't waist time checking anything...statistic ok you stay...not ok you go!!! theres a lack of consistency...for one advisor is one metric very important for the other another metric...so you´ll never know...you just could be fired although the most important metric is showing 100% but the less important one doesn't meet the standard....it could be just 4% missing that makes you loose your job.... I never in my working life had to tell a customer to please just consider my job and not the other factors when they evaluate the survey because that could make me loose my job....I had to do it with apple....you handle up to 60 calls a day and you are evaluated for an average of 35 surveys a month...also don't even try to argue about that!!! shifts are pure luck...dont count there on having a work life balance! Also BEWARE when they tell you the salary will increase to a specific amount after 6 months...it just doesn't happen...or you´re told oh it depends on performance now or there will be no increase this year.....so you just hear and read people leaving.... when you decide to work from home think that theres no career progression at all (not what they make you think in the interview or later), so you´ll be stuck doing that dull boring and often stressful calls every 8 seconds...when asked about moving back to the office the answer is theres no chair for you here or you apply and we will see.... Be careful with the interviewers they are just wolfs in lambs clothes.....management is incredibly careless... it´s very hard to keep your self motivated working for a company that doesn't care about you and your future.... there is a struggle to keep things positive and avoid the truth when its criticism or it gets a bit negative...some advisors even get away being aggressive to others during work only for the sake to keep things positive... it´s a very stubborn company, if they would only invest genuinely in the welfare and retention of their advisors like they invest in their design....it could be a good company to work for All in all Apple big name big shame you realize you did a mistake joining them when it´s already too late....

1.0
Nov 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- employee discount - health insurance - sports & social club

Cons

If you want to be treated like a prisoner or kindergarten child with timed toilet breaks (8 minutes a day) you are at the right place! Apple's "think different" is also wrong because if you do and say it out loud, you will be treated like an outsider. Specific conservative managers might also advise you that your dress code will never get you anywhere. Never saw such incompetent management (only achievable if you have good connections or apparently are a single mother) - if you hate your job, bad luck, you will have to stay 12 months no matter what. Also, if you come 1 minute too late in the morning (they allow you 5 min, but after that shame on you!), this will count as an 0.25 incident. You are allowed 3 every 6 months and being sick counts as one as well. So, whenever your car breaks down or you simply can't make it in time, nobody will ever forgive you. But this is all acceptable as you have so much mind freedom in your job. Yes, you can create your own emails (my manager seriously suggested this as solution for the lack of responsibility I was complaining about) - WOW! Two of my favourites were the pathetic call listenings or the iChats you would receive after not finishing your case within 3 minutes or when you are "unavailable" for longer than 10 min. You would get a nice "hey, are you ok" from Big Brother himself.

1.0
Feb 19, 2017

High pressure call centre

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good benefits - Good rates of pay - Lovely team members - Apple always looks good on CV

Cons

- It's a call centre job - It doesn't matter how they dress it up, you are working in a call centre. There is nothing fancy about it. In fact most Apple customers are monsters, the sort of people who drive Audi's and shout at waitresses for getting their order wrong. I have never wished people harm before, until I spoke to some of the animals who were my customers in AppleCare. - Clueless management at all levels - from the senior Area Management downwards, most managers are clueless robots who are either external hires from other call centres or internally promoted clowns who were so bad at customer service they were able to brown-nose their way off the phones as quickly as possible. I wouldn't let them mind my cactus plant for 48 hours, let alone run a call centre. - Unsocial Hours - Forget weekends and Christmas / public holidays off if you are working in Tech Support or customer facing phone work. You will even be made to work Christmas day, because your life and your family are not important, some idiot who can't work out how to turn on his iPhone 7 at 9 am on 25th December is. Don't worry though, senior managers won't be around, they will be off skiing in France for the 3 weeks over Crimbo. Same applies to weekends. - Endless micromanagement - all off-phone time is closely management. However well you handle a call, email or chat, your robot of a manager will pick holes in all the good work you did, telling you in your one-2-one session how bad you are at your job, despite the fact if you transferred a real life customer to them, they would jump into the sea. The endless pressure of having your every movement picked over results in countless people either resigning or, being out long term sick with depression and stress etc. To conclude: I'd rather flip burgers, clean septic tanks, or be an exotic dancer, than work for AppleCare again.

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