There's fear of poaching because the tech industry is so incredibly bad at giving raises. People are forced to change jobs to get what they're worth after just

There's fear of poaching because the tech industry is so incredibly bad at giving raises. People are forced to change jobs to get what they're worth after just a few years. Some companies are smarter than this, but most are not, from what I've seen. So yeah, they're going to worry about poaching because they know they aren't doing what's really needed to keep people.