Three-day work weeks. Sign-up bonuses as high as $7,000. A key to the company hot tub. Free orthodontia for all the children.
These are just a few of the goodies handed out by electronics companies in California's "Silicon Valley," some 40 miles south of San Francisco. It is the scene of a frenzied recruiting drive for anybody with a scientific skill—and many with no skills at all.
Some 500 companies are locked in a desperate recruiting battle for a severely limited number of workers. The more esoteric the specialty, the keener the competition. The mere...
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