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0 pointseropple10y ago0 comments

Plenty of places outside of SF are doing interesting things. Boston has plenty, as does Austin.

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I live in Austin and have seen many of my coworkers and friends leave for the bay area. Besides interesting work I think there are more opportunities for career growth.

I am in security (but it's similar in many specialties) and while there are very good companies in Austin if I want to to rise become a security architect or director of information security I have to go to the tech headquarters. Companies like Google and facebook may have regional offices but the core innovative security/ai/pl work and executive decision making is being done in the home campuses.

That being said, I would never leave Austin for the SF bay unless it involved a $350k+ salary.

HillRat10y ago

For security you could also look at the DC area, especially if you're an AMCIT who wouldn't mind undergoing an SSBI. The downside is that most of those jobs are playing whack-a-mole with breaches, but for high-paying, high-profile forensics, response and research positions, federal contractors are hard to beat.

sotojuan10y ago

Yes, but San Franciso has the most. Plenty of other cities have theaters, ballet, and opera—but people move to New York.

bsder10y ago

Austin is more hype than substance. And it has gotten really expensive as well.

San Diego, for example, stomps all over Austin in terms of software jobs, and Austin's hardware scene is laughable.

kzhahou10y ago

What are the SD companies?

bsder10y ago

Go down to Sorrento Valley. Take a rock, and throw it at a building. Austin doesn't have the defense and biotech sectors that San Diego has.

Big ones: BAE, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. (Previously I would have listed Qualcomm ...)

A zillion biotech startups: I drive past at least a dozen near here every day: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9104712,-117.2304182,18.57z

Rockstar San Diego seems to be hiring as far as I can tell.

In addition, a lot of manufacturing companies up in the San Marcos/Vista area all need automation programmers.

If you're not finding SD companies with software jobs, I'm very surprised.

hobscrk77710y ago

I, too, would be interested to hear the response.

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big_youth10y ago

I live in Austin and have seen many of my coworkers and friends leave for the bay area. Besides interesting work I think there are more opportunities for career growth.

That being said, I would never leave Austin for the SF bay unless it involved a $350k+ salary.

HillRat10y ago

sotojuan10y ago

Yes, but San Franciso has the most. Plenty of other cities have theaters, ballet, and opera—but people move to New York.

bsder10y ago

Austin is more hype than substance. And it has gotten really expensive as well.

San Diego, for example, stomps all over Austin in terms of software jobs, and Austin's hardware scene is laughable.

kzhahou10y ago

What are the SD companies?

bsder10y ago

Go down to Sorrento Valley. Take a rock, and throw it at a building. Austin doesn't have the defense and biotech sectors that San Diego has.

Big ones: BAE, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. (Previously I would have listed Qualcomm ...)

A zillion biotech startups: I drive past at least a dozen near here every day: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9104712,-117.2304182,18.57z

Rockstar San Diego seems to be hiring as far as I can tell.

In addition, a lot of manufacturing companies up in the San Marcos/Vista area all need automation programmers.

If you're not finding SD companies with software jobs, I'm very surprised.

hobscrk77710y ago

I, too, would be interested to hear the response.

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