March 24 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she declined in 2008 to limit the recruitment or hiring of Google Inc. employees after being contacted by two senior officials at the search engine company.
Sandberg made the assertion in a court filing as Google, Apple Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. prepare for a trial scheduled in May over claims they agreed not to recruit each other's employees in violation of antitrust law. Neither Sandberg nor Facebook are defendants in the case.
The lawsuit in federal court in San Jose, California, mirrors claims that Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit Inc. and Walt Disney Co.'s animation studio Pixar and visual-effects specialist Lucasfilm Ltd. settled with the U.S. Justice Department in 2010. The plaintiffs include software and hardware engineers, programmers, animators, digital artists, Web developers and other technical professionals.
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