If you have a college degree stay away from the Solutions Consultant position. - Solutions Consultant Apple Employee Review

3.0
Jan 30, 2010
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Pros

You make great money for working in a Best Buy for Apple. You get the benefit of an Apple corporate. You make almost twice your base pay on commission. Most people make 70,000+

Cons

Your a glorified Best Buy employee except that you work for Apple. You work every weekend and every holiday. Your treated to high attach standards when selling computers. You must sell 35% Mobile Me and 50% iWork and always be hitting your computer sales each week. You are constantly hounded on hitting sales/attaches and your only as good as your last week. There is no upward track in this division of Apple. You basically have 15-25 people going for one associate regional manager positon which doesn't open up for multiple years. Moving up to corporate in Cupertino is difficult since our Managers don't know many people at headquarters. Its basically a dead end job folks. Don't get blinded by the pay its a waste of your time and your life. Also don't think this division is like Apple its not its more like best buy but with apple managers who are a bunch of old used car dealers.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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