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Caterina Fake on how there are great engineers everywhere: http://www.caterina.net/archive/001215.html http://www.caterina.net/archive/001215.html she also tou
by brown9-2 17y ago
Caterina Fake on how there are great engineers everywhere: http://www.caterina.net/archive/001215.html http://www.caterina.net/archive/001215.html
she also touches on some cultural differences between NYC and CA:
But what NYC is actually missing is not engineers. In NYC you can find lots of great engineers, visual designers, and great publishers and contributors to social media. But in CA I seem to find far more people with multiple skills - engineers who blog and dabble in design, designers who can do great UI but also great UX, etc. These multidisciplinary people are the ones who hack together brilliant new stuff, can innovate across the board, see various avenues of attack, and are indispensable at startups. It is these hybrid people that we are always looking for at Hunch and for whatever reason find them much more often in CA than NYC.
- rdouble 17y agoHer article is wrong. NYC actually is missing engineers, or more accurately, missing internet-software-company-potential-employees. There are quantifiably more of these people in the Bay Area than there are in NYC. I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I actually think there are a higher percentage of "jack of all trades" programmers in NYC. In the Bay Area there are enough software engineers so that people can get much more specific about their areas of expertise. In NYC, there are fewer engineers, so people are forced to do a bit of everything. Caterina Fake's real complaint is that she can't find one person to do three jobs at once for her at Hunch, which isn't surprising.