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by alokm 5685 days ago
May be it has to do with the fact that number of employees in google are many times more than that of Facebook, bringing down the compensation avg as well as the avg job satisfaction.
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They're also a younger company, and pre-IPO, and probably have cultural differences too.
The pre-IPO part is key. They still have a ton of employees motivated by the "I'm about to be rich" carrot. Facebook is young and growing, it's easy to have satisfied employees at this point.

It's keeping them that way over the long haul that's the trick (particularly after the 'sexiness' has worn off).