Verizon lost a ton of talent in 2015 when they axed the areas and reorged. They lost many more when they threw even more money at the best and brightest they had with the VSP.
Now with the lowest unemployement rate in over 50 years, this old telco finds itself talent starved and either failing at finding new streams of revenue with huge failed flops of aquisitions like AOL, Yahoo and On Cue. To horrid jokes of new products like Go90, Verizon Connect with its signature HUM piece of junk and a flacid attempt at mobile advertising with Oath. Lets not forget wireless, its cash cow is flat at best on good quarters and retracting at worst on bad quarters. Wireline and FiOS are in decline and are outrageously expensive to maintain.
It amazes me this joke of a company has not gone bankrupt. It continues to exist in spite of its best effort to commit economic s–c-de.
So I ask you this: Is it any surprise they are trying to get back the talent that made them what they were are their peak in 2015?
I say to Verizon after burning so many good employees and customers: Eat $hit And Die.