Apple CEO Tim Cook AP Apple has a strict code of secrecy that it expects all employees to live by. Anyone who breaks it is fired.

Unsurprisingly, employees rarely speak publicly about what it is like to work there.

Luckily, there are several Quora threads written by former and current employees devoted to answering questions about life inside the Fruit Company. We put some highlights together with info we got from our own sources, and reports elsewhere.

Their comments reveal how employees are prepared to pull all-nighters at a moment's notice, how their trash is monitored by security, and how much they enjoy working with the best. ↓↓↓