Facebook is hiring and Google is "the best place to get good engineers and others," says TechCrunch. "Facebook has already claimed Youtube CFO Gideon Yu, eCommerce Product lead Benjamin Ling and GDrive developer Justin Rosenstein."
Senior VPs at Google have dubbed it "the Facebook problem" according to a number of sources. At least ten "top performers" have made the switch over the last two months.
Justin Rosenstein's "exit letter" is quoted on the Infectious Greed blog, saying Facebook is "the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago. That company where large numbers of stunningly-brilliant people congregate and feed off each other's genius. That company that's doing with 60 engineers what teams of 600 can't pull off."
I have drunk from the kool-aid, and it is delicious.
Staff who have made millions of dollars from Google going public can now move to Facebook and hope to repeat the process. Inded, it would be interesting to know if any of the Facebbook hires from Google were Google hires from Microsoft.
