headhunter

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Sun, a Beijing-based headhunter for some of the biggest Chinese tech companies, works to lure China-born talent back home, targeting people at U.S.-based companies such as Meta, Google, Anthropic and Amazon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

ByteDance, which has the biggest AI team in Chinese tech, sometimes pays salaries two or three times the market average to recruit top talent, said industry headhunter Shen Wei.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

The city brought in a headhunter before Soboroff left, but the position has now been unfilled for longer than Soboroff’s 90-day tenure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

Much of the poaching involved Chinese companies trying to capture Taiwanese expertise, applying that knowledge in their plants and then ditching the workers, said one headhunter, Michael Lo.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

A headhunter he’d contacted via e-mail was practically guaranteeing them work.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz