Steve Jobs asked Google to stop trying to steal Apple employees

A common practice among Silicon Valley companies is to try to sign the main leaders of the competing companies. So do companies like Apple to sign multi-year contracts to its employees in exchange for large sums of money (if the employee leaves his post before the due date will not receive the full amount agreed). However, in 2010 the companies Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel and Disney, reached an agreement to not "steal" employees from their competitors.

Now comes to light an email from 2007 that reads like Steve Jobs was aware of this practice by Google, who was trying to recruit Apple employees. A strategy that did not like at all to Jobs, who directly asked the manager of Google, Eric Schmidt, to cease this behavior. This was the brief email Steve Jobs sent to Schmidt, who by then was part of Apple's board:

"I love your human resources department failed to do this. Steve "

Schmidt responded immediately putting back several employees of Google and Steve Jobs asking their workers' why was this happening and if they could stop. " One of the Google employees said that the HR person trying to recruit an Apple engineer would be fired in less than an hour.

Another key point about how the companies in Silicon Valley.

Source: Reuters