Google’s Greg Badros is the new Director of Engineering of Facebook

Google’s Greg Badros is the new Director of Engineering of Facebook

Google has lost yet another senior executive, this time to social networking giant Facebook.

Facebook has hired Greg Badros as their new Director of Engineering.

He was previously with Google.

He was part of the original Google AdSense engineering team. He has also worked on their other properties like Google Calendar, Google Reader and Gmail.

Facebook has this to say on the appointment: “Greg Badros has joined Facebook as a director of engineering, reporting to Mike Schroepfer. Greg is one of the most accomplished engineering talents at Google, and it’s wonderful that he has decided to bring these talents to Facebook and take on numerous responsibilities across the engineering organization.”

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