I was recently "poached" as an engineer myself. I really like working for the company I'm at, but was ready for a change and new challenges. A colleague I'd pre

I was recently "poached" as an engineer myself. I really like working for the company I'm at, but was ready for a change and new challenges. A colleague I'd previously worked with was building a new team reached out to see if I'd join his team. It sounded like a great opportunity, so I said yes. It's been a good decision. Internal poaching is hardly uncommon and in fact you'll often see engineers follow each other large companies in small flocks- on engineer is frustrated, gets an internal transfer, and tries to get the best engineers from thier old team to join thier new team is. This is networking (the interpersonal kind) at work.