Apple's Secretive Culture

Don't these guys have a super-secretive work culture? Like, you can't even ask what your colleague from another building is currently working on. I'd imagine they'd be very displeased with this leak, and somebody probably got fired.

I haven't worked there, but isn't Apple famously siloed, even internally? My impression was that there were many areas that could not tell even other Apple employees what they were working on.

When I was contractor I had a contract for a few moths with a company that discouraged people from talking to each other and everything was very secret. It felt a little weird but then I thought maybe a lot of companies do it so I played along. For example you hear about people at Apple never seeing the whole device they are working on.I guess from the inside it's not always so clear to the little guy what's normal company weirdness and what's fraudulent. Although higher up e

How could you possibly know this? Every company I've every worked at is compartmentalized, and my experience is that Apple is especially compartmentalized, with secrecy and measures similar to governmental security clearance around various projects.

I think you are drawing the wrong conclusions here. I have never worked at Apple, but know many people that have. Every team is different but the overarching theme is that they are very secretive internally, especially around hardware. They are so secretive that someone I know was working on a project that their own manager wasn’t allowed to know about.

That's true for every company. I work at a private mid sized unknown company as the developer lead. I can't go out an publicly speak about what's going on at the company or their roadmap even to employees at other locations or sometimes to my own team. Even though I'm not officially management, I'm privy to information for planning purposes that the company may not want to get outDo you think that Tesla is going to allow him to open source the self driving car softwa

The source publication is a better read: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apples-culture-of-secrecy...

i understand apple is secretive to external parties. i couldn't quite figure out how secretive they are internally, and how that effects innovation for employees.

as someone who worked at Apple, they have an incredibly strong culture of internal siloing. I would be zero surprised if they were building one but no one new about it

When my friends at apple talk to me I feel any of them could write your post except...none of them would say "I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software" (well, maybe one would).I'd like to work with these folks again* but the incredible secrecy would bug me. I understand that some things have to be secret, and I don't at feel I need to know what that group over there is doing but I'd like to talk with my (NDAd,