I remember the good old days when Google did this to Microsoft and Ballmer would be in the headlines for yeeting office chairs weekly. Not sure how well that played out for Google.
Poaching is a strange verb to use. It implies that Apple has some intrinsic right to their labor and that meta has done something unethical by making them a better offer.
I used to know corporate recruiter that really made it feel like the appropriate term. He used all sorts of social engineering to trick employees of companies to flesh out internal org charts by convincingly pretending to be people they should confide in. It was like Mr. Robot, but without the computers. And he was given marching orders like, find this department in this company, figure out who the good people are, and what makes them tick and bring them all. It could take months. It was underhanded, and very impressive. This was before linkedin probably made it so much easier.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 26.7 ms ] threadThat's simply not how employment works.
Here's an alternate headline: Valuable AI workers improve compensation by leaving Apple