In the early 2000s, this sort of situation would have probably sounded a bit far-fetched, but nowadays it seems to be common for carmakers to poach employees from tech companies, and the other way around. Tesla Motors is said to have "stolen" quite a high number of Apple employees in recent years, with Bloomberg mentioning that over a hundred former Apple staffers now work for the electric-car manufacturer. Some Apple executives and engineers are apparently more than happy to jump boat to Tesla, with the carmaker’s current vice president of vehicle programs being formerly in charge of product and hardware design for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and the iMac, between 2008 and 2013, when Elon Musk persuaded him to come at Tesla Motors.
According to Bloomberg, Apple is equally guilty of trying to poach employees from Tesla, offering $250,000 signing bonuses and 60 percent salary increases. "Apple tries very hard to recruit form Tesla," Musk told the publication. "But so far they’ve actually recruited very few people." In other words, Tesla has been much more successful in luring talent from Apple, albeit no signing bonuses or salary increase promises have been made public. As both companies are based in Sillicon Valley, scouting for talented workforce personnel on the same hunting grounds was bound to create some friction between them at some point, but the situation doesn’t seem to have escalated too much in recent years.
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Tesla Motors And Apple Steal Employees From Each Other originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 9 February 2015 13:00 EST.
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