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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by n09n on Sunday March 23, 2014 @08:01PM (#7455835)
>we had people boasting about having a stable job, then hearing about a job at another BigNameCo, and applying for it just to drive up their own wage. No intention of leaving their own company, and that it was turning into a routine process rather than the odd here-and-there.

Regardless of your opinions about the morality of this practice, there's no basis for calling it collusion.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by vacri on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:25PM (#7456515)
Sure there is - people here on HN were openly talking about colluding with their friends in other companies to do it.

It's not to say that all engineers were doing it (which I think is a salient point), but in all these arguments, the engineers are painted as naifs who had done nothing as a group to merit this. To be clear, I don't agree with the ethics the companies displayed, I just think it's unfair that the collusion between some engineers gets glossed over amongst all the outrage.

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