Apple was the ringleader in the illegal anti-poaching agreements between SV companies a couple decades ago.
> anti-poaching
The term make it sounds like a good thing, however I do not know if this was really a net positive. It might have helped the companies but isn't this anti-competitive at the employee level?
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And successfully at the time (illegally) squashed unionization efforts by software engineers
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