( Cross Posted From The All Facebook )
Google Plus, which has high aspirations of kicking Facebook’s butt, has quite a few of its competitor’s employees using the platform.
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?