While Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple’s board of directors, the two companies had an agreement not to hire away each other’s workers, a former Google employee with knowledge of such matters has told us. We have since confirmed this with other ex-Googlers. This was not a written agreement, and was considered non-official, but it was well-known and followed within the recruitment division of Google, we’re told.
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Did you ever wonder why when you are applying for a job in a similar great company like the one you are in, they never acknowledge your application or return your call? Apparently Google and Apple have Gentleman’s Agreement on not poaching employees from each other. Kind of odd don’t you think? Sources claim its an unwritten agreement, its more like so that there is no paper trail.
It is a form of oligopoly, in this case its hoarding talented people. What is scary is that there is collaboration between the two giants on technology innovation (see related article here) on how each other’s software should behave. Now thats darn scary. Anti-trust case anyone?
