For example, Google — which has an extremely efficient and personal recruitment program — considered using its co-founders to personally recruit Facebook employees. In addition, if a Google employee is offered a job by Facebook, the company will make a counteroffer within an hour. As many as 64,000 tech workers have accused Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe of colluding to suppress wages, effectively agreeing they would not poach one anothers employees. Because Facebook was not a part of this alleged deal, Google executives were concerned about how Facebook aggressively courted Google employees.