Depending on when your pal worked there, they were in the middle of a huge standardization process. I'm not sure what's going on there anymore, but they made a company wide effort to only use a single infra framework that handles deployments, testing, infra, and all kinds of other stuff. All the fun stuff has been farmed out to a few enterprise teams and everyone else was forced to shut down anything custom.

Friend currently works there and has worked their for a year. A year of no coding sounds rough, but I guess he isn't jumping cause he is worried about the pending recession.