@FuzzyBunnySlippers
And people still ask why American jobs is going overseas.
People are not robots. They don't just forget whatever they are doing in the first company, the bring that to the next company they work for, and in the above case seems to be that Google was trying to hire a very specific engineer. Why that engineer? And how did Jobs knew about it, other than the fact that most probably the same engineer went to Apple and say, "Pay me more.. Or else!"
Imagine if people are poaching all over the place then? You drive up salaries to insane level, secret product developments go all over the place. In the end, companies may just say fine, we do the concept, then let some engineer in our Asian subsidiary figure this out.
Come to think of it, that would be very good, since I don't live in the US. Go ahead then. Make sure the Taiwanese gets to engineer the next iPhone also. Heck, you already are making iPhones in China anyway.
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