In a bid to keep Facebook from hiring away its engineers, Google instituted a policy of making counter-offers within a one hour window, out of line with the company's "equal pay for equal performance" policy. These details emerged from emails disclosed in the wage conspiracy case involving Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe, being heard by US District Judge Lucy Koh. The companies and the workers who brought the case to court, have reached an agreement to settle the matter for $324 million, the Wall Street Journal reports but the potential embarrassment continues to grow, as emails from 2007 onwards show how Google reacted to the growth of Facebook.
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