[anonify8]

The staff professional network thing is limited in scale. I love my job but am I going to burn goodwill spamming people to apply and then there are 50-1 odds per person I contact applying and maybe 1000-1 that they will get offered and accept a job. So I annoy 1000 people (most I barely know) to get $5k bonus. Or I just don't bother.

Exception: high up moves to a company and brings a bunch of henchmen along. But this has its own issues around bias/fairness. Have you been trojaned?

[brudgers]

Exception: high up moves

They work the way they work because the people want to work together. The motivation is not a one time bonus. It is working with people you want to work with and who want to work with you.

A lot of people are not the kind of people other people want to work with. That’s what happened to their careers,

[anonify8]

I explained it poorly I think.

I meant to say the bonus is a poor motivation for anyone. You can get 5 bonuses a year for no effort by asking for a higher salary or good tax planning!

So for many you burn social capital by trying to recruit to your company. It only is worth it if you think your company is good and the job would be such a good match for John that he should leave his job and vesting etc.

The exception to this is bringing across people you like to worth with.

I am sure that this happens and can be good. I have not seen it happen at IC or Manager level (although heard of it talking ti someone at a meetup).

I have seen VC level do it so 2 levels above manager bringing their mates across. I have seen this usually lead to a bad outcome for existing staff and the business.