Apple recruits people for fake projects!

BANGALORE, INDIA: What makes Apple a successful company? Is it the best place to work? How can a person get a job in Apple?

Revealing some of the best kept secrets of Apple is Adam Lashinsky's “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired—and Secretive—Company Really Works?”

Have you ever heard of a company that hires new employees for fake projects? Apple does it just to test the worthiness of the newbie.

Not just that, the book even offers the techniques employed by Apple to be the best at everything it does. Perhaps it can be attributed to the company's strict recruiting policies.

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"Despite surviving multiple rounds of rigorous interviews, many employees are hired into so-called dummy positions, roles that aren’t explained in detail until after they join the company. The new hires have been welcomed but not yet indoctrinated and aren’t necessarily to be trusted with information as sensitive as their own mission," writes Lashinsky, the senior editor at Large of Fortune magazine.

He goes on to quote a former engineer, who had been a graduate student before joining Apple: "They wouldn’t tell me what it was. I knew it was related to the iPod, but not what the job was.”

No wonder Apple is considered to be the most secretive company in the world. But it may not be that bad place to work at.

As Lashinsky told Washington Post: “I don’t think of Apple as being this horrible place to work, but many people do. I think of it as being incredibly demanding, it’s a work-oriented workplace, it’s not a play-oriented workplace ... there’re no bean bags and lava lamps” as there are at Google."