Was your past employer trying to make best of the situation by hoping to fish for information about your next employer's projects via the consulting gig?
FWIW both the company I was leaving and the company I was joining were startups selling dynamic seat pricing systems to airlines. Your call if that's a conflict of interest :).
> [...] multiple former Apple employees now working at OpenAI reached out to discuss returning Apple-issued work devices they kept when they left Apple.
By not doing that you effectively just cry "sue me", this is stupidity on the employee's part (or malice). Oh and maybe don't take "screenshots of confidential documents".
A good company also doesn’t want you to take IP bc it creates the liability.
Apple is known for threatening companies that hire from them, and occasionally having secret agreements with other companies not to hire from each other.
People move from a company to a direct competitor all the time (i have a number of friends that went from working at aws to working on gcloud for example) and guess what, no one of those companies really went bankrupt due to this.
So really long story short: i think apple is being a sore loser at the employee retention game.
I might as well do the same just to be able to filter out candidates willing to do that.
And laughing about the possibility of copying data doesn’t necessarily mean anything was actually copied.
And in the end the know-how is in the people, so whatever apple has it getting out anyway when people leave.
More recently there was Nuvia, which the lawsuit was dropped, and Rivos, which was settled.
Maybe. It also advertises a moral flexibility that is high in-demand here in America. Clearly OpenAI has no scruples entertaining a turncoat of this scale, I can believe that businesses will be lined up out the door to hire these people.