"The last three perfect candidates took jobs at Google and Facebook instead of coming to work for us. Not a big surprise." This would kind of emply that those

"The last three perfect candidates took jobs at Google and Facebook instead of coming to work for us. Not a big surprise." This would kind of emply that those candidates turned down $500K a year to work for Google or Facebook. That would be a big surprise to me. It seems more likely that he didn't offer them as much as they could get elsewhere i.e. The market price.