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by jkcorrea 2140 days ago
#2 doesn't make sense, though: If I'm company B, trying to poach from company A, it would be in my best interest to make the leap to applying/interviewing less difficult, not more for employee's of company A.

Unless you're implying a set of companies are all in league with each other to reduce churn/competition for talent
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strbean 2140 days ago
> Unless you're implying a set of companies are all in league with each other to reduce churn/competition for talent

They have been caught doing so in the past. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

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pandaman 2139 days ago
FAANG don't really want to poach each other that much, as a sibling comment says, they had been already caught in the illegal non-poaching collusion. But even without any such collusion active they undestand that people would jump back and forth between these comapnies, ratcheting TC up every jump.

What they need is that somebody who passed the interview believed it was a lucky break and would not tempt fate trying a similar interview at another company. If they considered the interview just a filter, they probably would not be so lenient with letting people to apply many times and even encouraging this.

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kkkiiiooo 2140 days ago
> Unless you're implying a set of companies are all in league with each other to reduce churn/competition for talent

This is a proven reality, and has been out in the open for a long time.

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BurningFrog 2140 days ago
Then a few links to those proofs should be easy to produce?
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bretpiatt 2139 days ago
On this same thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182126
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BurningFrog 2139 days ago
Yeah, I know about that one. Wondered if anything new had come to light.

This was 10 years ago and involved 8 companies.

Concluding from one crime that they all do it, and that's just what those people are like, you can't trust them etc, is an impulse we all do well to resist.

Of course, concluding that nothing like this will ever happen again is also naive. The incentive to cooperate is certainly still there.

My impression is that since the 2010 case, wages have gone up dramatically in that class of companies. There are also more big companies with owners who aren't pals from before. I think. Just guessing, relly.

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