Which is why I didn't say the claim was false. I just have doubts that it's true. Googling "apple hiring process" turns up this: http://www.ifoapplestore.co

Which is why I didn't say the claim was false. I just have doubts that it's true. Googling "apple hiring process" turns up this: http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/hiring.html http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/hiring.html "And lastly, the competition for jobs is intense! Sr. v-p Retail Ron Johnson has said it's tougher to be hired than being accepted by Stanford University--literally. During one talk he said Apple hired 978 store employees during 2002 from an applicant pool of 16,438, or less than a 6% chance of being hired (Stanford accepted 12.6 % for 2005). Put another way, only 1 in 17 applicants is hired." Sure that's just retail, but it seems reasonable to guess that a similar hiring process exists for other fields.