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279615, The no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn't want you to see Posted by d., Wed Jan-23-13 04:05 AM
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-trail-steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-didnt-want-you-to-see
"Steve Jobs threatened patent litigation if Palm wouldn’t agree to stop hiring Apple employees, says former Palm CEO Edward Colligan in a statement dated August 7th, 2012. The allegation is backed up by a trove of recently-released evidence that shows just how deeply Silicon Valley's no-hire agreements pervaded in the mid-2000s. Apple, Google, Intel, and others are the focus of a civil lawsuit into the "gentleman’s agreements," in which affected employees are fighting for class action status and damages from resulting lost wages, potentially reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars."
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"Palm wasn't the only target of Jobs's indignation. Google emails reveal the beginnings of the Apple CEO's "thermonuclear war" attitude, particularly in the above email to Eric Schmidt, in which Jobs demands Google's cellphone software group stop "relentlessly recruiting" in Apple's iPod group. In another internal exchange, Google's former senior staffing stategist Amnon Geshuri informs Schmidt that a recruiter, having pursued an Apple employee, will be "terminated within the hour." Former head of People Operations Shona Brown declares it to be an "appropriate response" and asks Geshuri to "make a public example of this termination with the group."
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"Below, you can see several of the most condemning documents, including actual no-hire lists from the likes of Adobe, Intel, and others. A common theme running throughout is that HR departments appear to have been free to accept inbound applications from the employees of listed companies, but were forbidden from initiating the recruiting of off-limits employees themselves."
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-trail-steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-didnt-want-you-to-see
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