Apple's Secrecy Extends to Putting New Employees on Fake Projects

in new book, inside apple, adam lashinsky details process undergone new hires @ apple, noting many of them hired without knowing exact project working on put through testing period working on different project in order provide time evaluate trustworthiness.

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for new recruits, secret keeping begins before learn of these building they'll working in. despite surviving multiple rounds of rigorous interviews, many employees hired so-called dummy positions, roles aren't explained in detail until after join company. new hires have been welcomed not yet indoctrinated , aren't trusted information sensitive own mission. "they wouldn't tell me was," remembered former engineer had been graduate student before joining apple. "i knew related ipod, not job was." others know won't say, realization hits newbies on first day of work @ new-employee orientation.

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as noted business insider, former apple engineer confirmed piece of information during q&a portion of lashinsky's recent talk @ linkedin (video clip via fortune), going farther note new hires placed on fake products during probationary period.

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a friend of mine who's senior engineer @ apple, works on -- or did work on -- fake products i'm sure first part of career, , interviewed 9 months. it's intense.

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lashinsky's tidbit on new hires 1 facet of lengthier coverage of apple's strict secrecy, part of has been republished fortune how apple's organizational structure maintains company's security. full 50-minute linkedin talk also available on youtube.

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i must read book - read first chapter sample on ibooks , still have copy of jobs biography walter isaacson read too... not enough hours in day...!

 

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