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A startup I knew had someone take professional-looking pictures of new employees, and add them to the Who Works Here page, with a nice blurb. After years of employees being poached by Big Tech the Who Works Here page is gone. To me this is also part of the loss of innocence.

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The startup I worked for got rid of its Who Works Here page seemingly arbitrarily (at least not for any reason related to poaching), and replaced it with a page focused on executives. Probably not that arbitrary looking back.

They were proud to keep the banner photo of the whole team for years, though, even after more than 50% of the people in said banner photo were gone.

I suspect recruiters used LinkedIn to initiate the conversations. Keep in mind it takes two to tango. The employees opted to talk to the recruiters, go through interviews, and change jobs. The absence/presence of a "Who Works Here" page doesn't change the fact that recruiters will contact employees, and employees may change jobs.

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