I don&#x27;t know if there are companies that do this (I&#x27;m not saying there aren&#x27;t), but this does not match my ground-level understanding of how and why big tech companies are hiring. The ones I&#x27;m talking to are hiring because they are constrained on what they can build by the availability of specific kinds of engineers in their organization.<p>Zero is the number of companies I&#x27;ve talked to who have ever mentioned competition with other tech companies as a recruiting concern. I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s A Thing That Happens, particularly in executive hiring, but I don&#x27;t think most companies are hoovering up developers so they can hoard them.