Help Us Find the Most Poachable Players in Tech

While I'm normally one to frown on something like this, there are upsides to this for software engineers. This type of article increases the cachet of software developers and puts upward pressure on the salary and other compensation that software developers receive.

While there will likely be adverse affects from highlighting individuals instead of their work, articles like this help put software developers on par with rainmaker lawyers and doctors who are the best in their area of specialization. Respect for the profession, means more interest from parents in having their kids pursuing computer science at a young age. And more interest from parents means more school resources available to children for pursuing computer science.

If anything, articles like this are merely symptoms of the direction in which software engineering as a profession is headed.

Their previous effort along these lines: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/17/new-york-techs-20-most-po...

I guess betabeat thinks this is the tech industries' version of the society pages. How off putting.

Most poachable players? Is this a tabloid now?

... no.