They do. I personally know at least a dozen extremely talented software engineers who have left Blizzard alone for FAANG in the last 3 years. Could bump that up

They do. I personally know at least a dozen extremely talented software engineers who have left Blizzard alone for FAANG in the last 3 years. Could bump that up to a solid 2 dozen if we included Riot, and go back 5-7 years. edit/ These game companies themselves are also quite incestual, for want of a better word. Once a developer moves from one team in one company to another team in another company they typically try to heavily recruit the solid folks that they "left behind," as it were. And I get that, but, anecdotally, it's never been something that I did when I moved around in my non-games industry. It's never even really crossed my mind.