[myth_drannon]

Absolutely all the companies are doing it right now (in Canada/US) from small 10 person startups to FAANGs. The frustrating thing is that some smaller companies put your through these 5 hours of leetcode/system design but they never hire anyone and stay with the same number of employees. I see them posting over and over on HackerNews hiring threads but their head count never grows(by looking at LinkedIn)

[pyb]

Right on. There are many companies who interview candidates, but have little to no intention to hire. They are very difficult to recognize, as their job adverts and websites look exactly like all the others.

[zaphod12]

Most of the time these companies do hire people...they just generally lose people at almost the same rate. It's usually a sign of something negative, though

(note - staying the same size is fine if that's your desire, but it's a problem when you're aiming for aggressive growth and can't)

[AlwaysRock]

Yup. Churn is so high in dev roles.

You see the one or two leads who stay while a never ending list of mid to senior folks trickle in and out of companies.

[myth_drannon]

Well, yeah that might be a case for some. But the companies I was complaining about don't have a dev churn, it's the same people based on their work history.