Oh, come on. Yes they do.

> Is Apple throwing enough money at key engineers to prevent defection to Meta?

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/12/29/apple-meta-poaching...

Paying enough to keep key engineers is not the same as hiring new ones they don't need

Supposedly, there is software that uses "internet-based signals" behavioral predictions to identify which key technical people are being courted and/or are considering moving to a new gig.

Poaching is a big part of the game. You can't get a raise compared to what you can playing the game.

“Hey this guy just updated his linked-in for the first time in two years!”

I love how people assume that a poorly written and tangentially related article, with a question mark in the title nonetheless, becomes the official proof of <wild speculation that bigcorp is doing X>.

Wait until we see the flood of ChatGPT-generated articles. Oh, wait...

Are you not familiar with the world-class investigative tech journalism coming out of iDownloadBlog.com? I mean the guy lying about his day job posted it so clearly it's a very legitimate and prestigious publication.