It's not like Google is a privacy haven for people who care about that sort of thing.

I don't believe that recruiting is a big problem. Their immediate problem is that money isn't coming in. When you don't have money coming in you're not worried about hiring more people.

I don't think you really need the best of the best programmers to keep Facebook running. Other than the infrastructure needed to support the massive number of users Facebook has, I doubt the rest of the work done over there is really much more difficult than work done anywhere else. And I doubt they'll have to improve the infrastructure very much any more, seeing as they've much got as many users now as they ever are going to have. If anything it will get easier over time as more and more people leave the platform.

It did more damage than you think

Facebook's offers are still higher value than Google/Startups. And Google (although not the company in question) has nearly as questionable data use as Facebook.