Remember when Facebook started aggressively poaching Google employees and Google responded publicly by giving every engineer a substantial raise and privately i

Remember when Facebook started aggressively poaching Google employees and Google responded publicly by giving every engineer a substantial raise and privately in ways substantially more expensive than that? And Facebook pretty much just laughed and matched offers? And every engineer in the Valley figured out simultaneously that $100k was a floor not a ceiling? That strikes me as persuasive anecdotal evidence of what happens when a tech titan feels threatened by poaching that they cannot resolve by a gentlemen's agreement. My recollection for the timing of those opening salvoes in the talent war was mid-2010. This would have been right after the DoJ told the cartel to knock it off. I'll acknowledge off the top that that may be purely a coincidence.