Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/21/facebook-stealing-googlers-at-an-alarming-rate/

by nickb • 19 years ago

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hhm• 19 years ago

They are going back to Microsoft!

ardit33• 19 years ago

"They are going back to Microsoft!" -- facebook has a lot of ex-microsofties already. Anyways, I hope it doesn't get polluted too much with the ms mentality. The facebook experience and the newsfeed are loosing their simplicity and looking more and more like windows live.

hello_moto4• 19 years ago

For a side note: Google products start to look boring. No new features. No wonder they're losing their employees; nothing more to do.

coffeeaddicted3• 19 years ago

Does Facebook make anything interesting (from a programmers perspective)? I know a lot of cool stuff coming out of the google sweatshops, but I couldn't name anything interesting from Facebook. Am I missing out on something?

mxh• 19 years ago

From the article: "Entrepreneurs want to work at the hottest place on earth and right now that's Facebook."

I see at least two false statements in that sentence.

olefoo3• 19 years ago

Yes, I don't know about the rest of you but I'd rather be working on what will be the hottest thing around in a year's time. Catch the wave _before_ it breaks.

imsteve2• 19 years ago

Google's big wave came and facebook's hasn't. What's your point?

edu• 19 years ago

Yes, I bet that at facebook placement they have air conditioners.

ntoshev• 19 years ago

Entrepreneurs want to make their place hot, not go to someone else's. I also doubt Facebook is recruiting top hackers: they don't have hard technology there. They are probably getting a lot of idea guys/socially savvy people.

amichail2• 19 years ago

How much freedom does Facebook provide for its software engineers? Do they get something like 20% freedom?

mynameishere• 19 years ago

FYI that 20 percent thing is a trick for keeping potential entrepeneurs from quiting and starting their own companies.

amichail2• 19 years ago

So how is not having it any better?

boucher• 19 years ago

From what I understand, it's not even that real. That is, if you can get all your work done in 80% of your time, then you are free to work 20% on whatever, but most people don't end up doing it because they have to spend 100% of their time (or close to it) on official work.

Goladus2• 19 years ago

Some days, Tech Crunch seems more like a gossip tabloid than a serious news source. I once heard someone describe TV news as an ounce of fact poured into a sea of speculation, and this isn't the first TC article I've read that's gotten really creative with the speculation part.

icky• 19 years ago

I'm not alarmed. Are you alarmed? ;-)

hello_moto4• 19 years ago

This reminds me of a conversation I had with one of the Microsoft VPs. When asked about Google free lunch and recruiting tactics, he replied: "That's the culture in Silicon Valley. What's frightening is that people come and go within 2-3 years"

These googlers came to my school and advertising how proud they are working at Google. Now we know the truth (^_^).

sbh• 19 years ago

I don't think this has anything to do with the engineering challenges they have to solve at Facebook or the fun working environment. As that code-leak incident hinted some time ago, Facebook probably isn't more than a huge pile of spaghetti php-code. The only motivation of people for switching is greed. Facebook is pre-IPO, so stock options can potentially make some employees millionaires in case of a good IPO.

Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate

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