Facebook in New York: Engineering Office Now Hiring

Facebook's chief marketing officer, Sheryl Sandberg, hosted the event, joined by the company's Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"New York has a strong history of innovation and is home to thousands of talented technical people, and we want them to help us solve the challenges of designing and building the next generation of Facebook," Schroepfer said, according to a report in International Business Times.

Bloomberg proudly announced that the new office is Facebook's first engineering operation outside the West Coast, and he urged engineers and other high-technology companies to move to New York.  >>More here

SOURCE:  ibtimes.com