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It would be pretty cool to have Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin fighting over you as an employee, wonder who it was.
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The whole point is that you’re even worth the attention of attempted wage suppression by two high level execs.
It has nothing to do with fawning over execs.
Fascinating to see the amount of coordination at play to suppress wages/etc even while they're trying to poach and compete with each other.
I don't think they're actually trying to suppress wages. It sounds like they're just willing to do whatever it takes to get Steve Jobs to stop yelling at them and not thinking through the consequences.
There's no such thing as "poaching" in an honest employment market. Firms are supposed to keep their valued employees by competing.
Fascinating to see the amount of coordination at play to suppress wages/etc even while they're trying to poach and compete with each other.
I don't think they're actually trying to suppress wages. It sounds like they're just willing to do whatever it takes to get Steve Jobs to stop yelling at them and not thinking through the consequences.
https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1443263744906305543
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1422603572814962692
Because he clearly is trying to suppress wages. There seems to have been a lawsuit on it as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
These are funny, and their humor should be treated of how evidence of malfeasance really reveals itself: not in smoke-filled rooms, but silly emails between CEOs beefing over a talented employee.
Given the millions of dollars in damages these emails caused, I'm pretty sure they went back to unsubpoenable smoke filled rooms, minus the smoke. Hell, the CEO of Twitter flew especially to Apple HQ to get their advertising spend reinstated. He wouldn't have done that if whatever he needed to say could've been said over email.
No, this is likely not the reason in this particular case. If email were a replacement for face to fact negotiation, sales people would have stopped taking flights 25 years. Instead, sales at the b2b level is still filled with travel and relationship building.
Humans like humans showing up in person and to blow smoke up their ass. They don’t say that but it’s what they really like and they respond to it in the form of being less ruthless when it comes to cutting ties, etc.
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Given the millions of dollars in damages these emails caused, I'm pretty sure they went back to unsubpoenable smoke filled rooms, minus the smoke. Hell, the CEO of Twitter flew especially to Apple HQ to get their advertising spend reinstated. He wouldn't have done that if whatever he needed to say could've been said over email.
I suspect corporate collusion (and a fair amount of arranging corrupt mutual back-scratching for purely personal gain) like this is the bulk of the nefarious activity that actually goes on at all those various weird secret rich-people club meetings/getaways that are in fact real things and often serve as fodder for various far-wilder conspiracy theories.
Ha, we're totally not building a browser, nope, not us! I suppose perhaps that was true at that moment. When did they start making Chrome?
> I don't think we should let that determine our hiring strategy but thought I would let you know.
> Basically, he said "if you hire a single one of these people that means war".
I'm guessing the idea for Chrome started to crystallize right about here...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think they're actually trying to suppress wages. It sounds like they're just willing to do whatever it takes to get Steve Jobs to stop yelling at them and not thinking through the consequences.
> We are careful to adhere to non-compete agreements if we have established these with any company. Hiring non competes do exactly this regardless of whatever benefit of the doubt you wish to grant (not to mention it clearly establishes they’ve done this regularly prior to this so it wasn’t even a one off). More importantly, these were already clearly established case law as illegal in California. So these are Califo…
It would be pretty cool to have Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin fighting over you as an employee, wonder who it was.
No kidding. That employee's resume could be reduced to one sentence: "Sergey Brin and Steve Jobs got into a yelling match over me." Obviously that's stretching the truth a bit but that would get a lot of attention pretty quickly. Maybe enough to skip the leetcode challenges.