2025-12-06 22:26:03

The AI talent war is getting brutal, and one tech giant is bleeding heavily.

A major smartphone maker finds itself stuck in an awkward position—watching its AI engineers pack their bags for the competition. The exodus? Absolutely massive. Multiple senior talents have jumped ship to a social media giant, others headed to leading AI labs, some even chose an AI safety-focused research company.

Meanwhile, the company's CEO keeps rolling out... well, let's just say, some fascinating PR moves.

The contrast is striking: while competitors are building cutting-edge AI models and snatching up top minds, this company seems more focused on damage control than innovation. Classic case of falling behind in the race while trying to save face.

In tech, talent follows vision. And right now? The vision seems to be elsewhere.

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LiquidityNinja

· 4h ago

To be honest, poaching talent at big companies is just a blatant jungle law—the one with the clearest vision wins. The phone manufacturers really dropped the ball this time. What’s the point of just using PR for damage control when all the engineers have left? Yet another dream-chaser who got left behind. It’s a bit hard to watch. Talent is like liquidity—it flows to higher ground. How does this company still expect to keep people loyal? I really don’t get the CEO’s PR moves; at this point, they might as well just admit defeat and start over. Big companies have their failures too, but this time it’s really rough. This is what happens when you don’t have a good story to tell. Engineers want to go somewhere with a future.

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MeaninglessApe

· 22h ago

Honestly, these phone manufacturers are really digging their own graves. The executives are still making up stories while all the talent has left.

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MetaverseMigrant

· 22h ago

To put it simply, if big companies have no vision, employees will just leave. This is very normal.

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ForkInTheRoad

· 22h ago

To be honest, this just means there's no real vision. Employees aren't stupid—they can tell whether the company is actually working on AI or just putting out press releases.

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SerNgmi

· 22h ago

Oh no, it's the same old trick again—just putting on a PR show... All the key talent has left, and they're still pretending everything's fine.

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BugBountyHunter

· 22h ago

To put it simply, it's just a lack of vision. No matter how impressive the technology is, it can't win people's hearts.

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MevHunter

· 22h ago

ngl this is just a typical big company problem—lots of money but no vision, so of course the talent leaves.