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How much does Apple select employees for loyalty when hiring? One-eyed competitive fanbois?

Companies do want smart machiavellian people that independently act in the interests of the company (archetypical C-suite executives).

Google has had a number of ethical employees damage Google from the inside.

A company can be damaged by smart motivated machiavellian employees using their skills against their own company.

I've noticed competitive gaming training/selecting people to win-at-all-costs. Presumably the C-suite is benefiting from the influx of people that understand manipulation and complexity.



I know several people who work there who are Android and windows users and haven’t switched. Internally it seems they’re not very kool-aid heavy.




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