In Seattle, former Amazon Web Services Strategic Partnership Manager Zoltan Szabadi was sued by Amazon for violation of his non-compete agreement. Szabadi is now with Google in their cloud platform business. The lawsuit alleges:
Szabadi was directly and integrally involved with the marketing of Amazon’s cloud
We have previously addressed rumblings that the Department of Justice was investigating agreements between companies where they agreed not to contact each other’s employees for hiring purposes.
The companies involved were Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar. In the competitive impact statement, the DOJ outlined the nature of the agreements. For example
Last year there was discussion about the DOJ’s investigation of alleged improper hiring practices by companies like Google, Intel, IBM, and Apple. Apparently, the DOJ has stepped up the investigation according to a Wall Street Journal article. According to the article, the inquiry focuses on a pact amongst technology giants not to hire each other’s
Seventy percent of participating U.S. employers indicated they had rejected a job applicant based on their on line profile in a recent Microsoft survey. U.S. employers were well ahead of the UK, Germany, and France:
The study found that employers’ scrutiny focused on concerns about the applicant’s lifestyle, inappropriate comments by the candidate, and unsuitable pictures and video:
High-tech companies have been vigorous in their attempts to keep employees from departing to competitors as evidenced by the Mark Papermaster lawsuit filed by IBM and Steven Johnson case. According to some reports, Google and Microsoft entered into an unofficial agreement not to poach each others’ employees. Essentially, neither company would actively pursue or