From my experience, they hire non-programmers en-masse yet have their Infamous Interviews for engineers. Think how big they are. They need a lot of middle mana

From my experience, they hire non-programmers en-masse yet have their Infamous Interviews for engineers. Think how big they are. They need a lot of middle management types and general errand boys to keep even just their physical spaces up and running. Lots of folks start as support or writing contractors and work their way into open positions that way.