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We hear from a lot of our clients that they want to hire the best and the brightest from Google and Facebook, but it turns out it’s not that easy (huge surprise). We recently wrote a post about the talent war among Silicon Valley’s tech giants… but there’s another player involved who has way more money to throw at top talent – they’re called Venture Capitalists.
Yep, the biggest challenge in closing a top candidate is not pulling them away from sushi chefs and free massages, or even outbidding a competitor – it’s convincing them to join you vs START THEIR OWN COMPANY!
Check out which tech giants are launching the most successful startups (click here to enlarge):
Stanford grads have a tendency to target high technology companies given their proximity to Silicon Valley. They would prefer to take their chances on a hot startup (i.e. Google pre-IPO) than settle for a safe bet (McKinsey) like their Harvard counter-parts. (click here to enlarge image)
There’s been a lot of hub-bub about talent wars between Silicon Valley giants. We wanted to understand who’s actually winning and losing the war. We dug into our data and found some interesting insights. Based on our user-base who have changed jobs in the last 2 years, we looked at which companies people left and which ones they joined. Check out the results.
Applying for a job now joins tennis, checkers, ballrooom dancing and sex as yet another activity that is best executed with 2 (or more) participants…
