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Aggressively hiring all of a company’s employees will get you condemned for stealing trade secrets so, in other worlds, it’s de facto illegal.


I don’t believe you.


You don’t have to believe me. You can do a quick search on the jurisprudence surrounding trade secrets and employee poaching. There are plenty of cases in high value industries - mostly banking and software.

If a company lift a whole team in a short span of time, it gets really hard to argue there is no misappropriation.


Are there any examples where mass “poaching” was the only evidence? I found plenty of examples where it was part of what happened, but they all have other evidence of theft of trade secrets or whatever else the lawbreaking behavior was.




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