Today in TechNewbie Apple engineers tasked with working on fake products
Can't wait for that latest and greatest rumored Apple product to hit the shelves? You could be waiting a while — not all products being worked on by Apple engineers are real.
It was revealed at a LinkedIn event with Adam Lashinsky, author of the book Inside Apple, that one of Apple's senior engineers worked on "fake products" for "the first part of his career." The fake projects serve as a test of sorts — they're to make sure the prospective employee can be trusted enough to work on a secret project for the world's most valuable brand.
The head fake is just one of the many rites of passage required to gain full acceptance within the "homogeneous" Apple culture. Applicants at the company need to interview for as long as 9 months to gain the trust needed to earn a job.
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This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca
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