It wasn’t just optimistic, twitch, who is owned by Amazon, has been hiring competitively. Especially here on the west coast. They’ve been outright hiring people just so their competition doesn’t get to hire them. This happened a lot during covid during the hiring boom. Big tech would hire as much talent as I could and hoard it so others couldn’t have it. Of course, then they started layoffs last year, everyone freaked out, and nobody blamed the big companies for their terrible hiring practices the years before.

Turns out they just never had the budgets to have this many people on hand. People at Facebook came forward and just said that they were literally just sitting in offices doing nothing with nothing assigned to them