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>Hiring new engineers while the CEO is busy boiling some of its engineers alive [...]

But that's just your anecdote and has no actual affect on the time necessary to hire new software developers.

And the time it takes to hire has always been there; it isn't anything novel and certainly isn't stopping anybody from applying/hiring.

I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance!

>I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance!

A "big valley tech" company? No. A big company? Yes. But you didn't explain why that mattered.