Since hitting the social networking scene last month, Google Plus’ game plan was take aim at Facebook’s 750 million users and win them over, and it seems well on the way to doing so, with 10 million users amassed after two weeks. The search engine’s social site bears quite a striking resemblance to Facebook, gathered many of its features from other existing social media networks as well.
Naysayers are proclaiming however, that there is nothing in Google Plus that doesn’t already exist at another social media site. Google Plus powers-that-be are still trying to keep hope alive, that social network site users will want to, at some point, move their circle of friends into one central location.
It will be interesting to see over time which social network succeeds and which one fails. Perhaps with the addition of a surprisingly healthy number of Facebook employees, the newly established social site rival could in fact, reach their numbers goals after all.
Obviously, these Facebook employees are probably using Google Plus to do competitive research, but it’s interesting nonetheless to see how many staffers are sizing up the competition. Check out the list below:
Executive Team
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer
- Christopher Cox, vice president of product
- Lori Goler, vice president of human resources and recruiting
- Dan Rose vice president of partnerships and platform marketing
- Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer
- Elliot Schrage, vice president of global communications, marketing and public policy
- Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering
- Bret Taylor, chief technology officer
Directors
- Kate Aronowitz, director of design
- Ethan Beard, director of Facebook developer network
- Peter Deng, director of product management
- David Fisch director of business development
- Debbie Frost director of communications and public affairs
- Justin Osofsky director of platform partnerships
- Blake Ross director of product
- Alex Schultz, director of growth
- Vaughan Smith, director of corporate development
- Richard Cho, recruiting manager
Product
- Paul Adams, product manager
- Eric Antonow product marketing
- Will Cathcart, product manager
- Luke Delorme, product manager
- Rohit Dhawan, lead product manager of Facebook pages
- Naomi Gleit, vice president of user feedback
- Adrian Graham, product manager of Facebook questions
- Cat Lee, platform product marketing
- Sam Lessin, product manager
- David Recordon, senior open programs manager
Engineering
- Keith Adams, software engineer
- Aditya Agarwal, engineering director
- Arjun Banker, software engineer
- Jing Chen,software engineer
- Brent Goldman,software engineer
- Benjamin Golub, platform engineer
- Adam Hupp, software engineer
- Pedram Keyani, engineer of site integrity
- Tobie Langel, software engineer
- Justin Mitchell, engineer of Facebook photos
- Zach Rait, infrastructure engineer
- Arthur Rudolph, software engineer
- Yariv Sadan, mobile engineer
- Luke Shepard, engineering manager
- Mike Vernal, platform engineer
Design
- Nathan Borror, product designer
- Eric Fisher, social design strategist
- Rob Goodlatte, product designer
- Drew Hamlin, product designer
- Greg Hoy, design recruiter
- Francis Luu, product designer
- Adam Mosseri, product design manager
Partner and Developer Relations
- Jeff Bowen, platform developer relations
- Jacqueline Chang, strategic partner manager
- Andy Katzman, platform partnerships
- Vadim Lavrusik, journalist program manager
- Andy Mitchell, strategic media partnerships
Mobile
- Erick Tseng, head of mobile products
Research
- Pete Bratach, technical writer
- Sean Bruich, monetization analyst
- Cameron Marlow, data scientist
Advertising and Marketing
- Kevin Colleran, sales associate
- Todd Miner, head of sales IT
- Eric Toda, advertising operations, global marketing solutions
Readers, have you spotted any other Facebook employees on Google Plus not mentioned here? What do you think of how it compares with Facebook?
