Googler Gets $3.5 Million Not To Join Facebook

For any technology driven company, engineers are the most important asset. The company that relies on innovation in technology and speed of execution, losing out engineers is surely a sign of downward spiral. With Facebook's surge in traffic and overall popularity all over the world, Google can't afford to lose its own engineers to Facebook. The company is willing to go to any limits to stop the migration of engineers to Google.



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A staff engineer at Google was recently offered whooping $3.5 million in stock to reject Facebook's offer and stay with the company. The stock value is likely to go up in future. The fight for the good engineers is getting fierce between these two rivals. Facebook is eating Google's lunch and already became the #1 visited site in Google. It already has over 500 million users and the count is growing every day.

This is an interesting development as Google's one time big rival is firing about 2000+ employees this month!