Transitions of specialists from one corporation to another are quite common in the IT market.
And, according to a Business Insider study, Microsoft has become the leader in the number of employees who have joined Google – almost 5,000 people.
The Business Insider study is based on data from the social network for business communication LinkedIn. The journalists studied the profiles of social network participants who have Google as their current employer, and collected statistics on previous employers of users.
IBM and HP are in second and third place among former employers of Google employees. Almost 4,500 Google employees indicated IBM as their previous employer, and about 2,500 people indicated HP.
One of Google’s main competitors in the mobile device market – Apple Corporation – also lost some of the employees who preferred to work at the Internet giant, according to a study by Business Insider. Their number was 1,340 people. In addition to ordinary employees, Google managed to poach a senior director from Apple Simon Prakash, who controlled the quality of products at all stages from development to production. He worked at the Apple company for 8 years.
Google hired Prakash, despite the fact that for several years there was an agreement between Apple and Google on the “non-recruitment” of top managers from each other. According to the correspondence published at the beginning of the year between Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, dated 2007, the founder of Apple demanded to stop recruiting one of the developers. “I would be very happy if your recruitment department stopped actively poaching Apple employees,” he wrote to Schmidt. Then Jobs’ words had the proper effect and the employee who tried to poach shots from Cupertino was fired from Google within an hour.
Other major suppliers of employees for Google were Yahoo (2,430 people), Oracle (2,000 programmers), Cisco (1,600 employees) and Intel – about 1,360 people.