Facebook Is Eyeing Engineers at New York Banks in Hiring Spree
- Social media giant looking to double its staff in the city
- Battle for engineering talent in Big Apple is fierce
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Watch out Wall Street, Facebook Inc. is coming for your engineers.
The Menlo Park, California-based social media giant plans to double its headcount in New York City, aiming to hire more than 3,000 people over the next three to five years, according to a company spokesman. About half of its existing staff in the city are engineers, or some 1,600, and poaching such workers from the finance sector is “quite common” at Facebook, he said.