Does Apple really assign engineers to “fake” projects as a loyalty test?

Ars Technica
By Jacqui ChengFeb 15, 2013, 8:01 am329 pts
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock / Jacqui Cheng "Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them", blared a headline—and many others like it—last January. In the Apple-watching world, it has since become common wisdom that the company assigns new engineers to "fake" projects in order to…

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