Amazon and Microsoft both have relatively large development offices in Vancouver (Amazon's was supposed to be 1000 people). I don't believe these are staging of

Amazon and Microsoft both have relatively large development offices in Vancouver (Amazon's was supposed to be 1000 people). I don't believe these are staging offices either, like Facebook's is. I work on hardware, so I don't know that much about hiring on the software side, but I haven't really heard that much has changed in hiring programmers since they opened their offices.