<i>"The last three perfect candidates took jobs at Google and Facebook instead of coming to work for us. Not a big surprise."</i><p>This would kind of emply that those candidates turned down $500K a year to work for Google or Facebook. That would be a <i>big</i> surprise to me. It seems more likely that he didn't offer them as much as they could get elsewhere i.e. The market price.
This is a dup: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14246760" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14246760</a>