Facebook Steals the Design of Google Chrome OS

Facebook’s quest for the world’s best technological talent continues. The social networking giant has hired Matt Papakipos — the leader and key architect of Google Chrome OS — and VMWare Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein onto its engineering team.

To say that the resumes of Papakipos and Goldfein are impressive would be an understatement. Before becoming an engineering director at Google, Papakipos was the director of architecture at NVIDIA and Co-Founder of PeakSteam, which was acquired by Google in 2007. Goldfein was most recently VMWare’s VP and general manager of the desktop business unit and a seven-year veteran of the company.

“We’ve landed two accomplished, senior people to join the Facebook engineering team — Matthew Papakipos and Jocelyn Goldfein,” Facebook told us in a statement. “Both are about as accomplished as they come and we can’t wait for them to hit the ground running as key players on the team.”

Facebook has been on a hiring spree, nabbing both young talent and several big names in the process. It has wooed people away from countless companies, from Google to Pixar. Google has been the biggest loser to Facebook’s talent grabs however, the biggest being Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s business-savvy COO. Now the search giant has lost the champion of its upcoming operating system, a big blow by anybody’s standard.