Google has pulled off a coup by selecting an Apple senior director of product integrity for a top secret project, VentureBeat has realized.
The recruiting feat ishistoric considering that Google has never ever employed such a senior person away from Apple. The selecting is also fascinating due to the fact the Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly doing work out a “no poach” arrangement in which the companies — alongside with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intel and Intuit — allegedly conspired to suppress employee compensation by not poaching every single other’s employees.
Simon Prakash worked at Apple for a lot more than 8 years and was most just lately the senior director of solution integrity at Apple, according to his LinkedIn page. That signifies he was accountable for solution high quality across all of Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs. Apple has the very best status for product quality, according to customer satisfaction surveys by J.D. Strength.
Now he’ll be doing work for Google on a secret undertaking, presumably operate by Google co-founder Sergei Brin, who is in charge of a assortment of key research and development assignments at Apple. Google just lately obtained Motorola Mobility and it has a vast variety of hardware initiatives underneath way that Prakash might be working on.
Prakash began at Apple more than eight years ago as a senior reliability supervisor. Just before that, he was director of engineering design and style validation at Cielo Communications. He was also a reliability and FA supervisor at 3Com. Prakash is scheduled to commence operate on Monday. We’re checking with Google and Apple for comment.
If there really was a “no poaching” agreement among Apple and Google, it’s distinct that it no lengthier exists. That’s almost certainly a great issue, thinking about that the Justice Department is now having to pay interest.
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