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In fact Google even fired a recruiter for trying to hire someone from Apple Get your facts straight: that particular recruiter went to a top VP at Apple, offer

In fact Google even fired a recruiter for trying to hire someone from Apple Get your facts straight: that particular recruiter went to a top VP at Apple, offered them the COO position at Google which didn't exist. Once Google CEO learned of that, yes, they fired that super-pro-active recruiter. This is an instance of a mad recruiter who'll promise the moon to get someone interested in a bogus position. Firing sounds like a reasonable answer to such behavior. EDIT: I got Apple and eBay confused, as pointed out by comments below. The Apple firing did happen as well, in the now infamous "smiley email".

throwaway1509 12y ago
Where did you get that information? The original report on that story says “a Recruiter for the ‘Google.com Engineering’ team formerly known as the ‘Site Reliability Engineering’ team” nothing about COO or any other exec position, just engineering. — http://pando.com/2014/03/25/newly-unsealed-documents-show-steve-jobs-brutally-callous-response-after-getting-a-google-employee-fired/ http://pando.com/2014/03/25/newly-unsealed-documents-show-st...
rgbrenner 12y ago
1) the incident you are referring to was between Google and Ebay. Apple wasn't involved at all. http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-fixing-cartel-involved-dozens-more-companies-over-one-million-employees/ http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-... 2) The incident involving Google and Apple was between a recruiter and an engineer at Apple. Not some VP, executive, etc. http://pando.com/2014/03/25/newly-unsealed-documents-show-steve-jobs-brutally-callous-response-after-getting-a-google-employee-fired/ http://pando.com/2014/03/25/newly-unsealed-documents-show-st...