Other Googlers have left because they felt Google had gotten too big and turned into a slow-moving bureaucratic company Again, the company battled to keep the talent. For instance, when a Google product manager told his bosses that he was leaving to take a job at Facebook, they offered him a huge raise. But he told them it wasn't about the money. So they offered him a promotion, the opportunity to work in a different area, or even to start his own company inside Google. Yet, the former em ployee says that"At Facebook, I can see how quickly I could get things done compared to Google." However, there's one other thing that start-ups can offer experienced employees: They're still"private companies that haven't gone public and can lure workers with pre-IPO(initial public offering) stock