"Facebook is quietly telling people, never in writing, that there’s no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years. No guarantees, yadda yadda, but hey if you get 1/10 of 1%, that’s $100 million in stock."

Am I missing something, or is expecting "1/10 of 1%" equity insane? I've never heard of a mid-level developer getting that at a company of Facebook's size.

Wow, mid-level developers pull $150k?

Everything I had read previously stated that Google salaries were nothing special compared to industry averages, and it was the perks and culture that differentiated them

But there's no way $150k is average for a mid-range developer.

  no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years.

Arrington seems to be suggesting that FB is telling recruits "that there’s no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation".

If that is the case, and that's coming from any sort of person in a leadership or HR position, isn't that seriously afoul of SEC rules?

I wonder why Apple's different.

From what I read, their average salaries are much lower but their loyalty is much higher. Besides, you don't hear of too many Apple employees quickly leaving for other places, at least not as much as Facebook/Google.

Why?

I thought Facebook famously has/has a relatively small engineering staff - ~300 people - are they trying to rapidly expand this?

Isn't competition catching up for FB http://www.madina.com/

Never take a counteroffer. It is not a win-win proposition.

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What's Facebook's profit this year? Any guestimates?

Umm...Can somebody get me a job at Google right..... now?