[Jensson]

Why do you think otherwise? The whole reason they do it is that they looked at other big companies and noticed that everyone ended up with mediocre workforces after a while, so they did this to avoid that scenario. Then as they grew bigger they could hire a lot of data people to analyse different methods and see how well different things works to optimize further. When you spend tens of billions on engineering salaries at a data driven company you will do that.