The story about Google engineers taking offers from Facebook is seriously overblown. Google is a huge company (>10k employees) and there's always going to be so

The story about Google engineers taking offers from Facebook is seriously overblown. Google is a huge company (>10k employees) and there's always going to be some amount of churn. People don't work at a single company for their whole life anymore. Sure, Lars Rasmussen leaving was newsworthy, but was it really surprising to anybody after the death of Google Wave? Overall Google still hires orders of magnitude more people than it loses.