If you are considering a field sales job, do your homework. - Account Executive Apple Employee Review

2.0
Feb 28, 2009
Recommend
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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.

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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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