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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Oh for real like it actually is. Any company with brand recognition is easy as hell to recruit for. Every engineer wants to work for FANNG minus a select few. And they over hired like all hell, a lot of mediocre engineers got top tier company jobs.

I stand by that recruiters at big companies are just coasting, as observed by her “day in the life” video. If i spent that much time of my day just fuckin around even in the slowest season I’d be fired, because unlike her I have shit to do and clients waiting.
gpt
I've been lucky to have some small periods of downtime in my career (over 20 years at this point), but generally the moment people stop looking busy in my industry, upper management starts looking for people to cut. This unfortunately leads to people doing extra, and un-needed shit just to look busy, and the brightest and best moving on to places where they don't have to perform busywork just to feel secure.