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New Facebook chef will not be missed at the Googleplex

Health-conscious Googlers aren't sad to see new Facebook chef Josef Desimone go. "Josef Desimone was not Google's top chef," a Googler tells us. "Everyone hated his cafes. He had the worst heavy, everything-fried menus." Let's see who's slow and heavy on the ultimate field now.

8:00 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,521 views, 11 comments

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Facebook hires away Google's top chef

Is it "poaching" when a company steals a rival's chef? At Google, executive chef Josef Desimone scrambled cruelty-free eggs by the truckload. Now Facebook has hired him to replace steam-heated trays of takeout with the kind of free food Googlers are used to. For engineers, Facebook is the new dreamland, and a company cafeteria is the kind of perk they've come to expect. But foodwise, Facebook's simply not as interesting a challenge as Google, with its thousands of employees and campuses dotted around the globe. More »

1:40 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
8,035 views, 4 comments

Latest by n/a: I too aspire to work for a company that makes less in profit than my local Irish Pub more »