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Re:Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving fo... by prostoalex on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:14PM (#25432317)
A large company like that fertilizes the employment landscape - they hire in large numbers, conduct university recruiting, file H1B paperwork, bring Canadian students and accommodate their co-op schedules, pay relocation, etc. Rarely an expense that a small or medium startup is willing to undertake.

I remember seeing a recruiting report for Yahoo! when I worked there a decade and a half ago. Recruiting kept track of employees' previous work history as well as longevity of such employees within Yahoo! Turns out the top feeder company for them (easy to recruit people, and those recruits tend to linger on) was Oracle.

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Re:Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving fo... by MikeTheGreat on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:03PM (#25433700)
My understanding is that California has pretty good laws for allowing employees to move on to other companies (specifically, I think non-competes are illegal there).

It'll be really interesting to see if the fertilization still works as well in a state like Texas that's ok with things like non-competes, etc, being used to limit employee mobility.

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