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>> Even better, you can claim that you were in fact a senior product manager of let's say iCloud and who can say otherwise

I guess that's a hypothetical risk, but in reality they'll ask you a few behavioral/situational questions and if your caliber is off they'll know pretty easily.

They can call your previous employer and confirm your claims, you know.

All pretty much any company will say about you is the dates you worked and the title you had. They’re not going answer anything beyond that by policy. I would also say this happens pretty rarely.

As such, I assume they will say you were not in fact an iCloud lead but were actually an ICT2 engineer. Plus, there’s always the risk that your former coworker is on your interviewer team.

This absolutely happens in my (anecdotal) experience. But it's not a problem that affects Apple really.