Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every agent in an arms race is behaving rationally, from their perspective. The only solution is cooperation, but corporations have less incentive to cooperate than, say, nation-states.
In Israel there is an HR as a service company for early stage startups, that succeeds in bring really good talent. They choose startups wisely, their employees actually work in that startup shoulder to shoulder with the developers (especially to avoid backward linkedin interaction) and they recommend good candidates that had issues in/with one company to try and fit in another. This makes everyone happy. They also ha…
If I can come up with a reliable, repeatable system for identifying good developers, I still have to convince other companies to pay for it. The skepticism I get from companies is off the charts.
Do you know how the "HR as a service" company gets around that? Maybe that's why they embed their employees in the startup (face time generates trust)? I don't see them lasting long, though, for the exact reason you state: they're setting themselves up for high training costs and high turnover.