First we've seen a continual drop in the number of Seattle based engineers who are willing to relocate to the Bay Area. It's dropped by over half since the start of the year and it's the first sustained drop we've seen since starting Triplebyte in 2015.
Second, we've seen an increasing number of Bay Area engineers interested in moving to Los Angeles even as the average software engineer salaries in the Bay Area continue to grow.
As someone who moved halfway across the world and left family/friends to move to the Bay Area, it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest threat to Silicon Valley's dominance as the center of the technology industry.
Congrats on expanding, looking forward to when you come to the midwest!
In my case, the problem is needing to move away from where my friends & family are, because the bay area has gotten too expensive due mostly to the lack of housing. Given a choice, I'd rather be here.
Yes, 100% this. The Bay Area's loss is rest-of-world's gain, so I suppose it's fine in that sense. But it's still really sad to see such completely and utter failure of leadership from our local politicians on housing, and our federal politicians on immigration.
Considering the cost of California income taxes, housing costs, etc.
Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relatively reasonable price, that a couple with two professional level salaries can afford.
Yes, but is this the pinnacle we should aspire to reach? 2 professional salaries to eventually own a 2br condo somewhere in the lower mainland?
Vancouver and Toronto have a comparable ratio of salary to home costs as many of the hottest US locales right now. I don't see how it's a sustainable way to grow a city...
The FAANG of the world do it, but any idea why it's not more common with midsize or large startups.
Absolutely. Highest income tax in the nation, couple with some of the highest cost of living in the world.
SV is in big trouble once more non-SV companies start paying comp that is competitive with SV.
This is already happening and I know several great engineers who preferred offers for the same or slightly lower comp outside of SV.
The trend will be strongest among senior and veteran engineers, since buying a decent house and raising a family is virtually non-affordable in SV.
Especially since SV was never great about paying extra for senior and experienced engineers. They're going to have a serious problem when the only people willing to relocate to SV are fresh grads willing to live with roommates.
California has benefited immensely from SV growing in its backyard, but now that this fortunate growth needs some tending, California is just shrugging its shoulders, and in some cases making it worse (e.g. NIMBY laws in SF preventing new construction).
More granular targeting, especially for portable devices that will change WAN IP.
Yes, under any and all circumstances, this is the correct thing to do for safety and sanity.
When I get roped into doing "fix my computer" work for friends and family, it's also best to slap down a hosts blockfile. People get into some things I can't even imagine; it's like they're a one year-old sticking everything in sight in their mouths, just clicking on everything.
Re the SEO play idea and jumping straight to the assumption of deception, I've found it useful in life to switch my mental model away from "I don't understand, what's wrong with you?" towards "I don't understand, what's wrong with me?"
I'm unfamiliar with TripleByte, but it seems like they're matching online candidates with jobs, and that looks something that should be doable online. Other companies in this space are fully online and are recruiting for employers everywhere.
I wasn't accusing them of doing something wrong. I don't consider SEO to be deception and see no problem with a company doing something like this purely for SEO.
I got downvoted in the comments of another spam post of theirs because I made a snarky remark. I think they have mod access here -- they can delete your comment, make it invisible, etc. I think they're deleting comments in this very thread right here.
I'm just tired of seeing your ads everywhere, Triplebyte. You're right, I am an engineer. You have found me. But, I have a job that I plan on staying at for years. May I please, please be excused from the endless barrage of triplebyte "stories"? (not "spam", guys, OK? that word is not to be used anymore in 2018)
In all seriousness, I had an interesting dealing with triplebyte regarding an internal job posting.
Took an assesment, was sent a message of acceptance, followed shortly by a rejection.
Felt 'weird'.
That is an insane amount of money in the world of education and skill training.
For an industry that prides itself on being “efficient” and “productive”, it is kind of amazing to see how institutionalized the gatekeeper business has become.
Suppose I'm not looking for a job, but take your quiz for fun (which your site says is OK). I'd probably take the quiz in some area I'm not good in, such as front end web [1], because that might provide some guidance as to what I should be looking at if I want to get better in that field.
There is, of course, a good chance I'll do terrible on that (but have a lot of fun).
Then let's say that months or a year or so later, I've had a chance to actually get good in that area, and I'm looking for a job. Will that botched for fun quiz in that area sink me if I try to use Triplebyte seriously in that job hunt?
[1] I've only had to do simple web stuff--simple PHP generated pages with simple framework free JavaScript now and them.
$200k and above?
