How Facebook avoided Google's fate in talent poaching lawsuit


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 25 Mar 2014

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc has emerged as one of the biggest Silicon Valley companies to have resisted rivals' entreaties to stop poaching each other's employees, according to e-mails between the No 1 social network and Google Inc released in court filings. 

Sheryl Sandberg had just been installed as Facebook's chief operating officer when one of her former colleagues from Google e-mailed her, according to the filings unsealed late last week. Facebook's aggressive recruitment of Google employees had heightened tensions between the two companies to "Defcon 2," top Google executive Jonathan Rosenberg told Sandberg in August 2008. 

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