As Dana Evan from Jafco Ventures said at that Box VC panel, one of the problems every technology company faces today is the dearth of programming talent in the market and that's led to intense competition around hiring, and in turn to attract them to the platform each vendor is pushing so hard.
Consider the intense anxiety that afflicts hiring committees, whose members know that every tiny decision may come under the hostile microscope of an "equity officer" or some other licensed busybody.
Brocade, the defense argued, offered the low-priced grants as a way of attracting employees as the dot-com boom created an intense battle to hire talent.
Elysa Yanowitz says that when she was a West Coast sales manager for L'Oréal, she felt intense pressure to hire attractive saleswomen, even if they were incompetent.
The intense competition to hire graduates like Dr. Lawrence suggests that some education programs either will not have the faculty to help produce the numbers of teachers needed to staff the city's classrooms, or that they will have to compromise on whom they hire.
Those years were so intense that I hired a Personal Care Attendant to save my family.
This recent chaos in the hiring system, particularly intense on the East Coast, has been fed by the competition between judges, by the relative scarcity of top law jobs, by more applications from those who have already finished law school and by students pressuring for earlier interviews out of fear that no slots will be available if they are not first.
Instead, after rejecting American Airlines' proposed merger with US Airways, it approved the deal just three months later, after intense lobbying and revolving-door hiring.
Employers like hiring people with intense personal motivations for taking the job.
He said that he supported hiring minority professors, but that competition for them was intense and they were sometimes lured away by other schools.
