The Most Wanted Employees of Silicon Valley

SILICON VALLEY’S TALENT WAR JAs soon as top employees exit the doors of their high-profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here's how they're taking talent from one another, who's losing and who's winning. “There's been an arms race for talent. Certain companies have been stockpiling talent with great benefits. Most of that talent has had golden handcuffs." 2009 2010 STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN IT INDUSTRY JOB POSTINGS INCREASED BY ALMOST 70% SINCE LAST YEAR. - Shervin Pishevar, Investor and Founder of SGN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE STEALING THE BEST LOSING GOOD PEOPLE Ask G YS FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER ASK.COM GOOGLE YAHOO! MYSPACE The second they found out Ask.com engineers were on the market after a mass lay-off, Twitter poached on their former employees. Earlier this year, Holger Luedorf, Senior Director in charge of Yahoo's mobile deals, left the company and joined Foursquare - a company, which Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy. Y! 12% OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ARE FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES 1/3 OF MYSPACE EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT 50% 100% | Mark Zuckerberg personally convinced Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, to move from his Google office in Sydney, Australia, to Facebook's Theadquarters in Palo Alto. MySpace, once the leading social networking website, tried to make the company more comparable to Facebook by letting go a third of their employees in 2009. IFAI ALMA MATERS Most of these tech firm employees hail from California universities close to the Silicon Valley area, with Stanford University being the common denominator. FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER 1 STANFORD 1 STANFORD 1 UC BERKELEY 1 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 2 UC BERKELEY 2 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 3 HARVARD 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 3 SAN JOSE STATE 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 4 SANTA CLARA 4 SANTA CLARA 4 UC DAVIS 4 UC DAVIS 5 UCLA 5 UCLA UIC AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN 5 SFSU Average base salary and bonuses combined, Facebook is still ahead of Google by over $2,000 a year. Combine that with future potential growth and it's not difficult to see why some former Google engineers jumped over to greener pastures. MONEY TALKS ENGINEERS’ AVERAGE SALARY: ENGINEERS’ BONUSES: f G FACEBOOK $110,500 $11,900 FACEBOOK f $97,729 IG GOOGLE $21,192 GOOGLE ZYNGA $110,000 $10,500 ZYNGA TWITTER $89,603 N/A TWITTER | Now lets take a look at some of the other industry leaders and see where they rank in salary and bonuses. ENGINEERS’ BASE SALARY: ENGINEERS' BONUSES: $105,720 $10,000 $60000 $5,000 ORACLE YAHOO AOL CISCO INTEL YАHOO PERSONALITY Each company has its preferences when it comes to employees that are hired. Below are a few stereotypes attributed to certain company's employees. G| Google is known for their pampered proteges. Google employees are casual west-coast engineers spolied with outrageous perks such as free haircuts, an on-site dry cleaners and an endless supply of free meals. Facebook engineers are young east-coast transfers plucked fom ivy league colleges and Forbes 500 tech firms. Their preferred mode of transportation is the skateboard. Apple engineers are known as much |for their innovation as they are for their sleek, hip apday to de Black on black is day uniform inadditon to a tattoed momento of their supreme lord and leader, Steve Jobs. ΤΕMPTING EMPLΟΥ ΕES TO STAY G 24 To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. 24 $ $ 24 2$ To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. |G 2$ 24 $ 2$ $ 24 $ $ WHAT ENGINEERS ARE PROMISED IN STOCK OFF THE RECORD Its brightest engineers are kept and bounced from project to project internally to keep them from getting bored. $100,000 SOLID ENGINEERS $1,000,000 GOOD ENGINEERS + $1,000,000 STAR ENGINEERS f SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH.COM, BUSINESSINSIDER.COM, LINKEDIN.COM, WORLDTECH24.COM, AFTERCOLLEGE.COM, GLASSDOOR.COM FOCUS APPLE ЕВAY INTEL INTUIT AOL APPLE CISCO ЕВAY INTUIT ORACLE SILICON VALLEY’S TALENT WAR JAs soon as top employees exit the doors of their high-profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here's how they're taking talent from one another, who's losing and who's winning. “There's been an arms race for talent. Certain companies have been stockpiling talent with great benefits. Most of that talent has had golden handcuffs." 2009 2010 STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN IT INDUSTRY JOB POSTINGS INCREASED BY ALMOST 70% SINCE LAST YEAR. - Shervin Pishevar, Investor and Founder of SGN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE STEALING THE BEST LOSING GOOD PEOPLE Ask G YS FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER ASK.COM GOOGLE YAHOO! MYSPACE The second they found out Ask.com engineers were on the market after a mass lay-off, Twitter poached on their former employees. Earlier this year, Holger Luedorf, Senior Director in charge of Yahoo's mobile deals, left the company and joined Foursquare - a company, which Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy. Y! 12% OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ARE FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES 1/3 OF MYSPACE EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT 50% 100% | Mark Zuckerberg personally convinced Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, to move from his Google office in Sydney, Australia, to Facebook's Theadquarters in Palo Alto. MySpace, once the leading social networking website, tried to make the company more comparable to Facebook by letting go a third of their employees in 2009. IFAI ALMA MATERS Most of these tech firm employees hail from California universities close to the Silicon Valley area, with Stanford University being the common denominator. FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER 1 STANFORD 1 STANFORD 1 UC BERKELEY 1 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 2 UC BERKELEY 2 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 3 HARVARD 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 3 SAN JOSE STATE 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 4 SANTA CLARA 4 SANTA CLARA 4 UC DAVIS 4 UC DAVIS 5 UCLA 5 UCLA UIC AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN 5 SFSU Average base salary and bonuses combined, Facebook is still ahead of Google by over $2,000 a year. Combine that with future potential growth and it's not difficult to see why some former Google engineers jumped over to greener pastures. MONEY TALKS ENGINEERS’ AVERAGE SALARY: ENGINEERS’ BONUSES: f G FACEBOOK $110,500 $11,900 FACEBOOK f $97,729 IG GOOGLE $21,192 GOOGLE ZYNGA $110,000 $10,500 ZYNGA TWITTER $89,603 N/A TWITTER | Now lets take a look at some of the other industry leaders and see where they rank in salary and bonuses. ENGINEERS’ BASE SALARY: ENGINEERS' BONUSES: $105,720 $10,000 $60000 $5,000 ORACLE YAHOO AOL CISCO INTEL YАHOO PERSONALITY Each company has its preferences when it comes to employees that are hired. Below are a few stereotypes attributed to certain company's employees. G| Google is known for their pampered proteges. Google employees are casual west-coast engineers spolied with outrageous perks such as free haircuts, an on-site dry cleaners and an endless supply of free meals. Facebook engineers are young east-coast transfers plucked fom ivy league colleges and Forbes 500 tech firms. Their preferred mode of transportation is the skateboard. Apple engineers are known as much |for their innovation as they are for their sleek, hip apday to de Black on black is day uniform inadditon to a tattoed momento of their supreme lord and leader, Steve Jobs. ΤΕMPTING EMPLΟΥ ΕES TO STAY G 24 To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. 24 $ $ 24 2$ To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. |G 2$ 24 $ 2$ $ 24 $ $ WHAT ENGINEERS ARE PROMISED IN STOCK OFF THE RECORD Its brightest engineers are kept and bounced from project to project internally to keep them from getting bored. $100,000 SOLID ENGINEERS $1,000,000 GOOD ENGINEERS + $1,000,000 STAR ENGINEERS f SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH.COM, BUSINESSINSIDER.COM, LINKEDIN.COM, WORLDTECH24.COM, AFTERCOLLEGE.COM, GLASSDOOR.COM FOCUS APPLE ЕВAY INTEL INTUIT AOL APPLE CISCO ЕВAY INTUIT ORACLE SILICON VALLEY’S TALENT WAR JAs soon as top employees exit the doors of their high-profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here's how they're taking talent from one another, who's losing and who's winning. “There's been an arms race for talent. Certain companies have been stockpiling talent with great benefits. Most of that talent has had golden handcuffs." 2009 2010 STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN IT INDUSTRY JOB POSTINGS INCREASED BY ALMOST 70% SINCE LAST YEAR. - Shervin Pishevar, Investor and Founder of SGN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE STEALING THE BEST LOSING GOOD PEOPLE Ask G YS FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER ASK.COM GOOGLE YAHOO! MYSPACE The second they found out Ask.com engineers were on the market after a mass lay-off, Twitter poached on their former employees. Earlier this year, Holger Luedorf, Senior Director in charge of Yahoo's mobile deals, left the company and joined Foursquare - a company, which Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy. Y! 12% OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ARE FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES 1/3 OF MYSPACE EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT 50% 100% | Mark Zuckerberg personally convinced Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, to move from his Google office in Sydney, Australia, to Facebook's Theadquarters in Palo Alto. MySpace, once the leading social networking website, tried to make the company more comparable to Facebook by letting go a third of their employees in 2009. IFAI ALMA MATERS Most of these tech firm employees hail from California universities close to the Silicon Valley area, with Stanford University being the common denominator. FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER 1 STANFORD 1 STANFORD 1 UC BERKELEY 1 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 2 UC BERKELEY 2 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 3 HARVARD 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 3 SAN JOSE STATE 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 4 SANTA CLARA 4 SANTA CLARA 4 UC DAVIS 4 UC DAVIS 5 UCLA 5 UCLA UIC AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN 5 SFSU Average base salary and bonuses combined, Facebook is still ahead of Google by over $2,000 a year. Combine that with future potential growth and it's not difficult to see why some former Google engineers jumped over to greener pastures. MONEY TALKS ENGINEERS’ AVERAGE SALARY: ENGINEERS’ BONUSES: f G FACEBOOK $110,500 $11,900 FACEBOOK f $97,729 IG GOOGLE $21,192 GOOGLE ZYNGA $110,000 $10,500 ZYNGA TWITTER $89,603 N/A TWITTER | Now lets take a look at some of the other industry leaders and see where they rank in salary and bonuses. ENGINEERS’ BASE SALARY: ENGINEERS' BONUSES: $105,720 $10,000 $60000 $5,000 ORACLE YAHOO AOL CISCO INTEL YАHOO PERSONALITY Each company has its preferences when it comes to employees that are hired. Below are a few stereotypes attributed to certain company's employees. G| Google is known for their pampered proteges. Google employees are casual west-coast engineers spolied with outrageous perks such as free haircuts, an on-site dry cleaners and an endless supply of free meals. Facebook engineers are young east-coast transfers plucked fom ivy league colleges and Forbes 500 tech firms. Their preferred mode of transportation is the skateboard. Apple engineers are known as much |for their innovation as they are for their sleek, hip apday to de Black on black is day uniform inadditon to a tattoed momento of their supreme lord and leader, Steve Jobs. ΤΕMPTING EMPLΟΥ ΕES TO STAY G 24 To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. 24 $ $ 24 2$ To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. |G 2$ 24 $ 2$ $ 24 $ $ WHAT ENGINEERS ARE PROMISED IN STOCK OFF THE RECORD Its brightest engineers are kept and bounced from project to project internally to keep them from getting bored. $100,000 SOLID ENGINEERS $1,000,000 GOOD ENGINEERS + $1,000,000 STAR ENGINEERS f SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH.COM, BUSINESSINSIDER.COM, LINKEDIN.COM, WORLDTECH24.COM, AFTERCOLLEGE.COM, GLASSDOOR.COM FOCUS APPLE ЕВAY INTEL INTUIT AOL APPLE CISCO ЕВAY INTUIT ORACLE SILICON VALLEY’S TALENT WAR JAs soon as top employees exit the doors of their high-profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here's how they're taking talent from one another, who's losing and who's winning. “There's been an arms race for talent. Certain companies have been stockpiling talent with great benefits. Most of that talent has had golden handcuffs." 2009 2010 STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN IT INDUSTRY JOB POSTINGS INCREASED BY ALMOST 70% SINCE LAST YEAR. - Shervin Pishevar, Investor and Founder of SGN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE STEALING THE BEST LOSING GOOD PEOPLE Ask G YS FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER ASK.COM GOOGLE YAHOO! MYSPACE The second they found out Ask.com engineers were on the market after a mass lay-off, Twitter poached on their former employees. Earlier this year, Holger Luedorf, Senior Director in charge of Yahoo's mobile deals, left the company and joined Foursquare - a company, which Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy. Y! 12% OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ARE FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES 1/3 OF MYSPACE EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT 50% 100% | Mark Zuckerberg personally convinced Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, to move from his Google office in Sydney, Australia, to Facebook's Theadquarters in Palo Alto. MySpace, once the leading social networking website, tried to make the company more comparable to Facebook by letting go a third of their employees in 2009. IFAI ALMA MATERS Most of these tech firm employees hail from California universities close to the Silicon Valley area, with Stanford University being the common denominator. FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER 1 STANFORD 1 STANFORD 1 UC BERKELEY 1 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 2 UC BERKELEY 2 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 3 HARVARD 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 3 SAN JOSE STATE 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 4 SANTA CLARA 4 SANTA CLARA 4 UC DAVIS 4 UC DAVIS 5 UCLA 5 UCLA UIC AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN 5 SFSU Average base salary and bonuses combined, Facebook is still ahead of Google by over $2,000 a year. Combine that with future potential growth and it's not difficult to see why some former Google engineers jumped over to greener pastures. MONEY TALKS ENGINEERS’ AVERAGE SALARY: ENGINEERS’ BONUSES: f G FACEBOOK $110,500 $11,900 FACEBOOK f $97,729 IG GOOGLE $21,192 GOOGLE ZYNGA $110,000 $10,500 ZYNGA TWITTER $89,603 N/A TWITTER | Now lets take a look at some of the other industry leaders and see where they rank in salary and bonuses. ENGINEERS’ BASE SALARY: ENGINEERS' BONUSES: $105,720 $10,000 $60000 $5,000 ORACLE YAHOO AOL CISCO INTEL YАHOO PERSONALITY Each company has its preferences when it comes to employees that are hired. Below are a few stereotypes attributed to certain company's employees. G| Google is known for their pampered proteges. Google employees are casual west-coast engineers spolied with outrageous perks such as free haircuts, an on-site dry cleaners and an endless supply of free meals. Facebook engineers are young east-coast transfers plucked fom ivy league colleges and Forbes 500 tech firms. Their preferred mode of transportation is the skateboard. Apple engineers are known as much |for their innovation as they are for their sleek, hip apday to de Black on black is day uniform inadditon to a tattoed momento of their supreme lord and leader, Steve Jobs. ΤΕMPTING EMPLΟΥ ΕES TO STAY G 24 To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. 24 $ $ 24 2$ To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. |G 2$ 24 $ 2$ $ 24 $ $ WHAT ENGINEERS ARE PROMISED IN STOCK OFF THE RECORD Its brightest engineers are kept and bounced from project to project internally to keep them from getting bored. $100,000 SOLID ENGINEERS $1,000,000 GOOD ENGINEERS + $1,000,000 STAR ENGINEERS f SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH.COM, BUSINESSINSIDER.COM, LINKEDIN.COM, WORLDTECH24.COM, AFTERCOLLEGE.COM, GLASSDOOR.COM FOCUS APPLE ЕВAY INTEL INTUIT AOL APPLE CISCO ЕВAY INTUIT ORACLE SILICON VALLEY’S TALENT WAR JAs soon as top employees exit the doors of their high-profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here's how they're taking talent from one another, who's losing and who's winning. “There's been an arms race for talent. Certain companies have been stockpiling talent with great benefits. Most of that talent has had golden handcuffs." 2009 2010 STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN IT INDUSTRY JOB POSTINGS INCREASED BY ALMOST 70% SINCE LAST YEAR. - Shervin Pishevar, Investor and Founder of SGN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE STEALING THE BEST LOSING GOOD PEOPLE Ask G YS FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER ASK.COM GOOGLE YAHOO! MYSPACE The second they found out Ask.com engineers were on the market after a mass lay-off, Twitter poached on their former employees. Earlier this year, Holger Luedorf, Senior Director in charge of Yahoo's mobile deals, left the company and joined Foursquare - a company, which Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy. Y! 12% OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ARE FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES 1/3 OF MYSPACE EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT 50% 100% | Mark Zuckerberg personally convinced Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, to move from his Google office in Sydney, Australia, to Facebook's Theadquarters in Palo Alto. MySpace, once the leading social networking website, tried to make the company more comparable to Facebook by letting go a third of their employees in 2009. IFAI ALMA MATERS Most of these tech firm employees hail from California universities close to the Silicon Valley area, with Stanford University being the common denominator. FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER 1 STANFORD 1 STANFORD 1 UC BERKELEY 1 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 2 UC BERKELEY 2 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 3 HARVARD 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 3 SAN JOSE STATE 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 4 SANTA CLARA 4 SANTA CLARA 4 UC DAVIS 4 UC DAVIS 5 UCLA 5 UCLA UIC AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN 5 SFSU Average base salary and bonuses combined, Facebook is still ahead of Google by over $2,000 a year. Combine that with future potential growth and it's not difficult to see why some former Google engineers jumped over to greener pastures. MONEY TALKS ENGINEERS’ AVERAGE SALARY: ENGINEERS’ BONUSES: f G FACEBOOK $110,500 $11,900 FACEBOOK f $97,729 IG GOOGLE $21,192 GOOGLE ZYNGA $110,000 $10,500 ZYNGA TWITTER $89,603 N/A TWITTER | Now lets take a look at some of the other industry leaders and see where they rank in salary and bonuses. ENGINEERS’ BASE SALARY: ENGINEERS' BONUSES: $105,720 $10,000 $60000 $5,000 ORACLE YAHOO AOL CISCO INTEL YАHOO PERSONALITY Each company has its preferences when it comes to employees that are hired. Below are a few stereotypes attributed to certain company's employees. G| Google is known for their pampered proteges. Google employees are casual west-coast engineers spolied with outrageous perks such as free haircuts, an on-site dry cleaners and an endless supply of free meals. Facebook engineers are young east-coast transfers plucked fom ivy league colleges and Forbes 500 tech firms. Their preferred mode of transportation is the skateboard. Apple engineers are known as much |for their innovation as they are for their sleek, hip apday to de Black on black is day uniform inadditon to a tattoed momento of their supreme lord and leader, Steve Jobs. ΤΕMPTING EMPLΟΥ ΕES TO STAY G 24 To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. 24 $ $ 24 2$ To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. |G 2$ 24 $ 2$ $ 24 $ $ WHAT ENGINEERS ARE PROMISED IN STOCK OFF THE RECORD Its brightest engineers are kept and bounced from project to project internally to keep them from getting bored. $100,000 SOLID ENGINEERS $1,000,000 GOOD ENGINEERS + $1,000,000 STAR ENGINEERS f SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH.COM, BUSINESSINSIDER.COM, LINKEDIN.COM, WORLDTECH24.COM, AFTERCOLLEGE.COM, GLASSDOOR.COM FOCUS APPLE ЕВAY INTEL INTUIT AOL APPLE CISCO ЕВAY INTUIT ORACLE SILICON VALLEY’S TALENT WAR JAs soon as top employees exit the doors of their high-profile company, you can bet that other Silicon Valley tech companies are already clamoring to snatch up these valued industry professionals. Here's how they're taking talent from one another, who's losing and who's winning. “There's been an arms race for talent. Certain companies have been stockpiling talent with great benefits. Most of that talent has had golden handcuffs." 2009 2010 STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN IT INDUSTRY JOB POSTINGS INCREASED BY ALMOST 70% SINCE LAST YEAR. - Shervin Pishevar, Investor and Founder of SGN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPANIES THAT ARE STEALING THE BEST LOSING GOOD PEOPLE Ask G YS FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER ASK.COM GOOGLE YAHOO! MYSPACE The second they found out Ask.com engineers were on the market after a mass lay-off, Twitter poached on their former employees. Earlier this year, Holger Luedorf, Senior Director in charge of Yahoo's mobile deals, left the company and joined Foursquare - a company, which Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy. Y! 12% OF FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES ARE FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES 1/3 OF MYSPACE EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT 50% 100% | Mark Zuckerberg personally convinced Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, to move from his Google office in Sydney, Australia, to Facebook's Theadquarters in Palo Alto. MySpace, once the leading social networking website, tried to make the company more comparable to Facebook by letting go a third of their employees in 2009. IFAI ALMA MATERS Most of these tech firm employees hail from California universities close to the Silicon Valley area, with Stanford University being the common denominator. FACEBOOK GOOGLE ZYNGA TWITTER 1 STANFORD 1 STANFORD 1 UC BERKELEY 1 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 2 UC BERKELEY 2 STANFORD 2 UC BERKELEY 3 HARVARD 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 3 SAN JOSE STATE 3 CARNEGIE MELLON 4 SANTA CLARA 4 SANTA CLARA 4 UC DAVIS 4 UC DAVIS 5 UCLA 5 UCLA UIC AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN 5 SFSU Average base salary and bonuses combined, Facebook is still ahead of Google by over $2,000 a year. Combine that with future potential growth and it's not difficult to see why some former Google engineers jumped over to greener pastures. MONEY TALKS ENGINEERS’ AVERAGE SALARY: ENGINEERS’ BONUSES: f G FACEBOOK $110,500 $11,900 FACEBOOK f $97,729 IG GOOGLE $21,192 GOOGLE ZYNGA $110,000 $10,500 ZYNGA TWITTER $89,603 N/A TWITTER | Now lets take a look at some of the other industry leaders and see where they rank in salary and bonuses. ENGINEERS’ BASE SALARY: ENGINEERS' BONUSES: $105,720 $10,000 $60000 $5,000 ORACLE YAHOO AOL CISCO INTEL YАHOO PERSONALITY Each company has its preferences when it comes to employees that are hired. Below are a few stereotypes attributed to certain company's employees. G| Google is known for their pampered proteges. Google employees are casual west-coast engineers spolied with outrageous perks such as free haircuts, an on-site dry cleaners and an endless supply of free meals. Facebook engineers are young east-coast transfers plucked fom ivy league colleges and Forbes 500 tech firms. Their preferred mode of transportation is the skateboard. Apple engineers are known as much |for their innovation as they are for their sleek, hip apday to de Black on black is day uniform inadditon to a tattoed momento of their supreme lord and leader, Steve Jobs. ΤΕMPTING EMPLΟΥ ΕES TO STAY G 24 To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. 24 $ $ 24 2$ To keep its key talent, Google is offering its 23,300 employees a $1,000 holiday bonus on top of a 10% pay increase for 2011. |G 2$ 24 $ 2$ $ 24 $ $ WHAT ENGINEERS ARE PROMISED IN STOCK OFF THE RECORD Its brightest engineers are kept and bounced from project to project internally to keep them from getting bored. $100,000 SOLID ENGINEERS $1,000,000 GOOD ENGINEERS + $1,000,000 STAR ENGINEERS f SOURCES: TECHCRUNCH.COM, BUSINESSINSIDER.COM, LINKEDIN.COM, WORLDTECH24.COM, AFTERCOLLEGE.COM, GLASSDOOR.COM FOCUS APPLE ЕВAY INTEL INTUIT AOL APPLE CISCO ЕВAY INTUIT ORACLE