Founder here. This piece took my team and I months to research and tag and write. We spent hours counting individual layoffs in spreadsheets and on LinkedIn and running and rerunning the numbers. And the conclusion wasn't even what I wanted. When I started writing, I really thought that the layoffs were overblown and weren't affecting engineers. That's not what's happening at all.

Now, you're right, why do we put effort into pieces like this? It's to get some eyeballs on interviewing.io.

But this piece is not flimsy, and I think it's not correct or fair to assume that just because something serves our business that it's of poor quality.

Normally I wouldn't say anything, but the "flimsy" thing really got me.

Just because you can surmise as to the obvious ways in which writing this post might generally serve the interests of the author or the company behind does not, in itself, establish that the piece is flimsy. Your comment, on the other hand, with its baseless assertion and borderline ad hominem IS flimsy. Be better.