No, we wouldn&#x27;t.<p>Maybe for a few startups who are &quot;growing&quot; this is a good strategy (idk) but not the majority of businesses. It isn&#x27;t good business to randomly hire engineers you don&#x27;t have work for only to lay them off in a year because... you don&#x27;t have work for them!!! Your rockstar engineer isn&#x27;t going to have a good time twiddling their thumbs all day anyways.<p>My company has way more than 10 engineers but we rarely hire. Our work level has been very constant over the last decade and people rarely leave so they don&#x27;t need replacing often. The majority of our engineers have been working at the company for over a decade.<p>That&#x27;s not even how the majority of businesses work and many hiring managers aren&#x27;t even allowed to hire without a specific job opening. My boss (also the hiring manager) at the company I interned for wanted to hire me full time instead of replacing me with a new intern after my internship ended (which was protocol for that project I was working on). He couldn&#x27;t without the higher ups, who worked in another office, approving a new full time job opening which they didn&#x27;t want to do at that moment. He was only allowed to replace me with another intern because that&#x27;s what the higher ups called for, it was an intern position. There was no other full time positions open.<p>Yeah, it&#x27;s true that you should try to network in case there is a job opening somewhere that hasn&#x27;t been advertised yet. But it&#x27;s not going to work to assume every company is hiring all the time. That&#x27;s just setting yourself up for disappointment. Realistically most companies aren&#x27;t just going to hire someone on a whim.<p>This whole article sounds like an unrealistic pipe dream. I guess this is how &quot;startups&quot; operate, I don&#x27;t know, I don&#x27;t live anywhere near California.<p>(Oh yeah, non-salary benefits like vacation or health insurance are just not negotiated, they are determined by an algorithm in the company handbook)