You never know who is going to be in these boxes. It's part of the networking you do when you're recruiting. As a vice-president, Mr. Thomas also does hiring interviews for the integrated circuit engineers, which are among the scarcest skills around town these days. About 14 new recruits had been hired by late summer. The group was be 40 by the end of the year.
Competition is fierce and everyone is certainly watching everyone else.
Mr. Thomas says. If we get somebody who is young and aggressive and we find out they are interviewing with Nortel in the afternoon, we don't think of that as a threat. While Chrysalis is pulling in people every week, there are no guarantees. Mr. Thomas says. One such fellow, an IC engineer, somehow was pulled away even though he had already made a commitment to Chrysalis.