<story><title>Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]</title><url>https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>We should rid of the term &amp;#x27;poaching&amp;#x27;. There&amp;#x27;s no such thing. We&amp;#x27;re not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&amp;#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.</text></item><item><author>tallgiraffe</author><text>Sounds like a few engineers found out that Apple was looking into their company and knowing Apple was interested they took a new gig, meanwhile the CEO got upset and decided to fire the last remaining defecting engineer, who out of goodness of heart actually declined Apple, but gratefully took the offer once he got fired. Although it probably hurts to have your team poached, it sounds like potentially it wasn&amp;#x27;t a great working environment to begin with as the team was happy to jump ship at the first notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bernawil</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  We&amp;#x27;re not animals

  so the engineers went to greener pastures
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
...for grazing?</text></comment>
<story><title>Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]</title><url>https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>We should rid of the term &amp;#x27;poaching&amp;#x27;. There&amp;#x27;s no such thing. We&amp;#x27;re not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&amp;#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.</text></item><item><author>tallgiraffe</author><text>Sounds like a few engineers found out that Apple was looking into their company and knowing Apple was interested they took a new gig, meanwhile the CEO got upset and decided to fire the last remaining defecting engineer, who out of goodness of heart actually declined Apple, but gratefully took the offer once he got fired. Although it probably hurts to have your team poached, it sounds like potentially it wasn&amp;#x27;t a great working environment to begin with as the team was happy to jump ship at the first notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>&amp;gt;but he couldn&amp;#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.&lt;p&gt;She.</text></comment>