They didn’t really exist yet (they did, but they were tiny, not on anybody’s radar, and not really competing for top end experienced / senior talent for example, they were just vacuuming up new college grads)..
The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, each of which was headquartered in Silicon Valley, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.
The civil suit was filed by five plaintiffs. It accused the tech companies of collusion between 2005 and 2009 to refrain from recruiting each other's employees.
Ahh, thanks for the correction. I missed that he stepped down in 2019. My point was that Google failed to remove someone who engaged in criminal activity for several years even after it was made public, which seems to me like tacit approval by the Google board.
