how much were they getting?
So the first one applied for a job in a Chinese company, I don't know whether he received an big offer to steal trade secrets, but for sure he already decided to leave. I wonder how much he was paid, you might expect an engineer working in a critical project in a big company to be getting a good salary and a lot of perks in order to keep some attachment to the company, but it seems nowadays corporations don't care so much about it.