Not far behind comes HP as the runner up, with a nice climb from spot number 8 last year. On the 3rd place you’ll find Big Blue (IBM) and Google was 4th. Motorola closes the top 5 list. The largest drops in rankings belong to Comverse (from 7th place to 17th) and AudioCodes (from 27th to 4oth place).
In an interview to Globes, BDI co-CEO Tehila Tamir-Yanai said:
“There has been recovery trend in high-tech during the second half of 2009, as far as hiring is concerned. Nonetheless, salary levels have remained unchanged, and have not corrected to the levels of before the crisis. Companies that cut salaries when the crisis broke out have not yet raised salaries back to their previous levels.”
Furthermore, high-tech employees were content with their jobs despite an average pay cut of 7.5% last year and layoffs. They like the security of their jobs and the benefits packages, and prefer to stay away from the risks of the start up industry. This wasn’t the case before the economic downturn.
So what message does it send to the start ups vying for talent out there? If you’re trying to make a top executive in a big company to leave his/her job to help you build your dream idea, you have to give them a great upside opportunity and intellectual stimulation. Finding the right compensation structure can be critical in building your team.
I'm a former general partner at google ventures, head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe and founding head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups.
I'm also the founder of Techbikers, a non-profit bringing together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read. Since inception in 2012 we've built 11 schools and 50 libraries in the developing world.
- Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything - March 16, 2025
- Weekly Firgun Newsletter – March 14 2025 - March 14, 2025
- Israeli Pre-Seed Report 2025 - March 12, 2025
