Facebook has just hired Greg Badros
, a Google Senior Director of Engineering, we’ve learned. Badros joined Google in early 2003 and has worked his way up the chain since then. At Facebook, his official title will be Director of Engineering.
At Google, Badros was in charge of the AdSense engineering team from its formative years in 2004, through when it exploded in popularity with billions of dollars in revenues. He has also led the Google Calendar, Google Reader and Gmail teams. Since March 2009, he has led the Application Platform group. But it’s the AdSense experience that is particularly interesting here, as Facebook is attempting to better monetize its service.
[Via TechCrunch]
I not-so-secretly love the “people wars” that are playing out in newspapers, and on our tech enabled cell phones. It seems there are a quite a few companies trying to out do their competitors when it comes to human resource aquisitions.
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