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Topic subjectThe no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn't want you to see
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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."

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