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They didn’t really exist yet (they did, but they were tiny, not on anybody’s radar, and not really competing for top end experienced / senior talent for example
by rrdharan 5y ago
They didn’t really exist yet (they did, but they were tiny, not on anybody’s radar, and not really competing for top end experienced / senior talent for example, they were just vacuuming up new college grads)..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, each of which was headquartered in Silicon Valley, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.
The civil suit was filed by five plaintiffs. It accused the tech companies of collusion between 2005 and 2009 to refrain from recruiting each other's employees.
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- sneak 5y agoThe judge also threw out the initial settlement amount for being hilariously lowball. They stole billions of dollars from their staff. Eric Schmidt, one of the main conspirators, is still in a leadership role at Google.
- rrdharan 5y agoNo he’s not: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/09/eric-schmidt-is-reportedly-no-longer-an-advisor-to-the-company.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/09/eric-schmidt-is-reportedly-n...
- sneak 5y agoAhh, thanks for the correction. I missed that he stepped down in 2019. My point was that Google failed to remove someone who engaged in criminal activity for several years even after it was made public, which seems to me like tacit approval by the Google board.