Last week, after we learned
that Facebook had poached a Foursquare engineer and that Google had to
give an employee $3.5 million worth of stock so it would not go to
Facebook, we asked:

Here's what we've heard so far.

It's mostly gossip from industry sources:

• Facebook is NOT offering recruits huge salaries. In fact, one source
  tells us the company is strict about paying fairly low salaries.

• Facebook IS offering good engineers lots and lots of stock (restricted stock, but stock).

• How much? Depends on the quality