I don't think we should pile on these tech execs. It happens elsewhere. I'd speculate it's rather widespread. I worked for a Fortune 500 market research / cons

I don't think we should pile on these tech execs. It happens elsewhere. I'd speculate it's rather widespread. I worked for a Fortune 500 market research / consumer data company and I know for a fact that the Senior VP of our office would call Fortune 500 clients and kindly request they not "poach" our employees. Most of it is done casually and "innocently". I doubt most execs even thought they were breaking the law before this came to light.