Aquihiring also requires the personnel hired to... actually stay with the company....

Unless you dangle HEFTY stock options with incremental maturity dates, nothing is else is keeping them from leaving.

> Unless you dangle HEFTY stock options with incremental maturity dates

That is indeed how this whole thing works. I used to work with several folks who were kicking around FAANG for 4 years till their acquisition stock fully vested

When you consider how much time/money it takes to hire an experienced engineer, and how quickly they are liable to jump to the competition, acquiring an existing team of experienced engineers and tying them with the golden handcuffs is not a bad deal

	▲	sysguest 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> acquiring an existing team of experienced engineers and tying them with the golden handcuffs is not a bad deal well... why not tie who's already inside the company (who you actually know about) instead of an external people (who you DON't know about)? it's much difficult to get info about some external person, and most info is about external reputation ('the looks') though... that's the reason job-ping-pongs work: someone outside looks better than someone inside, because of your lack of info