I really don't like how the words "big tech" now exclusively refers to FANG webservice companies and not technology in general. It's like people can't even think about technology as a physical thing anymore, and exclusively as internet-based software. On that point, does anyone really think Bechtel or Wilcox weren't hiring? These are huge companies that build our naval reactors, technology that is being adapted to build commercial reactors. These are difficult jobs that most people cannot fulfill because they require lots of skill, knowledge, and technological readiness not excel proficency.

Ditto for the companies building H2 cells for things like locomotive for fleet trucks. Those are undoubtedly technology companies but you won't see Google programmers lined up to work in a dirty workshop where such devices are made. Nor the actual computer/electronics chip fabs that are being scaled up to bring chip production back home.