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Steve Jobs once thwarted Google’s attempts to recruit one of his company’s engineers via an e-mail to Google’s Eric Schmidt, resulting in the immediate firing of a Google recruiter, according to a new court filing.
The filing, picked up by Reuters this afternoon, details an e-mail exchange between late Apple co-founder and CEO Jobs and then-Google CEO and Apple board member Schmidt, wherein Jobs politely asks Schmidt to keep Google from attempting to hire one of Apple’s engineers.
“I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this,” Jobs wrote to Schmidt on March 7, 2007.
According to the exchange detailed in the filing, Schmidt then sent the request on, saying “I believe we have a policy of no recruiting from Apple and this is a direct inbound request. Can you get this stopped and let me know why this is happening? I will need to send a response back to Apple quickly so please let me know as soon as you can.”
This resulted in the immediate firing of the recruiter who had attempted to hire the engineer in
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