Just a minor note:<p>&gt; What that looks like in practice is you somehow find that an engineering company is hiring, which by the way, every company that has more than 10 engineers is going to hire engineers this quarter.<p>Not mine.  We haven&#x27;t hired an engineer, or anybody else, in over a year.  We aren&#x27;t struggling, either.  We just don&#x27;t have the work volume.<p>Maybe we are the exception, but anyone following this advice and trying to contact, say, me is just setting themselves up for disappointment.