10% of Facebook employees came from Google
Since there’s been a lot of press lately about Googlers jumping ship for Facebook, I thought I’d search Facebook’s network to see how many folks at the company used to work at Google. As it turns out, over 40, or almost 10% – and mostly engineering or product people. 
Here’s the full list:
- Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
- Gideon Yu (CFO)
- Andy Yang
- Ankur Pansari
- Benjamin Ling
- Catherine Lee
- Chris Kim
- Chuck Rossi
- Dale Dwelle
- David Braginsky
- David Ellis
- Don Faul
- Donn Lee
- Emily Young
- Ethan Beard
- Gina Emmett
- Jaime Schopfin
- James Mayfield
- Jason Min
- Jessica Ghastin
- John McKeeman
- Julie Tung
- Justin Rosenstein
- Kristina Holst
- Mark Rabkin
- Mark Slee
- Mary Ann Bailey
- Michael Kim
- Navid Mansourian
- Olaoluwa ‘Ola’ Okelola
- Pedram Keyani
- Peter Deng
- Peter Wong
- Sandra Liu Huang
- Sean Murphy
- Sean Tizoc Spiers
- Suedy Ezzatyar
- Tanja Balde
- Ted Loh
- Valerie Hajdik
- Wayne Chang
March 28th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hilarious photo =)
March 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
[...] From Justin: [...]
March 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Not to be too picky, but what percentage of these folks were full-time Googlers as opposed to summer interns?
March 30th, 2008 at 2:19 am
[...] interessante matéria publicada pelo blog Inside Facebook afirma que 10% dos funcionários atuais do Facebook trabalharam antes na empresa [...]
March 30th, 2008 at 7:49 am
You make hacker news front page.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149959
March 30th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Facebook must have something impressive planned, they certainly are gathering a lot of brainpower. But Google is still so much more than just a social network.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:43 am
[...] Read more HERE. [...]
April 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The big question is also how many people did they get who would have gone to Google.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
The other big question: how many people at google turned down jobs at facebook? From my sources inside google, about one in three “googlers” who gets a facebook offer accepts. Definitely not a scientific survey, but it is something to consider. More than how many people go, it would be great to know how many people do not go from google to facebook when they have an offer.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
[...] (with stock options that aren’t already underwater), like Facebook. About 40 Facebookers, or 10% of Facebook’s entire workforce, used to be Googlers, showing that a definite shift is underway. Google’s director of social media, Ethan Beard [...]
April 29th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
# Chad Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Not to be too picky, but what percentage of these folks were full-time Googlers as opposed to summer interns?
Agreed. Most of these were temps/interns/operations/sales.
I only see a handful of actual full-time software engineers.
# Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
# Gideon Yu (CFO)
# Andy Yang
# Ankur Pansari – Sales Engineer
# Benjamin Ling
# Catherine Lee – MBA Intern
# Chris Kim
# Chuck Rossi – Release Eng
# Dale Dwelle – Sourcer (temp)
# David Braginsky – SWE
# David Ellis – SWE(intern)
# Don Faul – OSO Manager
# Donn Lee
# Emily Young – Sourcer (temp)
# Ethan Beard – Partner Development Manager
# Gina Emmett
# Jaime Schopfin
# James Mayfield – OSO Coordinator
# Jason Min
# Jessica Ghastin – Legal Trademark Rep (temp)
# John McKeeman – OSO Rep
# Julie Tung – SWE
# Justin Rosenstein – PM
# Kristina Holst – SWE
# Mark Rabkin – SWE
# Mark Slee – SWE intern
# Mary Ann Bailey – Recruiting Coordinator (temp)
# Michael Kim – Data Center Tech (temp)
# Navid Mansourian – Helpdesk Admin
# Olaoluwa ‘Ola’ Okelola – SWE intern
# Pedram Keyani – SWE intern
# Peter Deng – SWE intern/ APMM
# Peter Wong – Data Center Tech (temp)
# Sandra Liu Huang
# Sean Murphy – Sourcer (temp)
# Sean Tizoc Spiers
# Suedy Ezzatyar – Sales Coordinator (temp)
# Tanja Balde – Ex-Recruiting Coordinator (temp)
# Ted Loh – Data Center Tech (temp)
# Valerie Hajdik – SWE intern
# Wayne Chang – SWE/Platforms intern
May 6th, 2008 at 12:10 am
[...] an ever-growing list of executives and engineers to leave Google for Facebook (perhaps as much as 10% of the company), Elliot Schrage has just joined Facebook as Vice President of Communications and Public Policy, [...]
May 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
[...] 10% of Facebook employees came from Google [...]
June 1st, 2008 at 5:53 am
[...] (with stock options that aren’t already underwater), like Facebook. About 40 Facebookers, or 10% of Facebook’s entire workforce, used to be Googlers, showing that a definite shift is underway. Google’s director of social media, Ethan Beard [...]
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
[...] leave their coveted jobs at Google, all the time. Enough have gone to Facebook that some estimate its workforce could be up to 10 percent former-Googlers. Microsoft employee and blogger Dare Obsanjo says that he, too, knows many techies who are picking [...]
August 14th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
[...] 10% of Facebook employees may have come from Google, the tide is now flowing in the opposite direction too. Ben Ling, who decided to leave Facebook [...]
August 20th, 2008 at 5:17 am
[...] leave their coveted jobs at Google, all the time. Enough have gone to Facebook that some estimate its workforce could be up to 10 percent former-Googlers. Microsoft employee and blogger Dare Obsanjo says that he, too, knows many techies who are picking [...]
May 20th, 2009 at 8:00 am
[...] watched as a number of Google employees have left the company to join other hot startups, including Facebook and Twitter. Other Google employees have gone on to start ventures of their own, some more [...]
June 21st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
[...] another former Googler to the Facebook ranks. Just recently, Facebook hired Greg Badros, formerly a senior director of [...]
June 29th, 2009 at 10:37 am
[...] the march of former Googlers two exits up the 101 to Facebook continues. At one point, nearly 10% of Facebook employees came from Google. Just a couple of weeks ago, Greg Badros, who headed up the AdSense engineering team for several [...]
December 30th, 2010 at 6:59 am
[...] martie 2008 se vehicula ca 10% din angajatii Facebook sunt de la Google. In octombrie 2010, procentul a crescut la 12,5 %. Cred ca [...]