> I've had a recurring thoughts that maybe big tech companies are conspiring together to hire as many software engineers as possible to make sure that those eng

> I've had a recurring thoughts that maybe big tech companies are conspiring together to hire as many software engineers as possible to make sure that those engineers don't have any time to build competing products. I think if you ask most employed software engineers if they'd quit their jobs because of an opportunity to develop their own ideas, you'd hear a resounding "yes". Considering most developers I know are crafty people who don't care about "career ranks", if big companies did this they'd just hurt themselves by giving developers the funds to pursue their ideas in the future.