I'm a part of Eventbrite's engineering team in Nashville. I'm really bummed about this article. I think it's a shame that Lyft told a whole department "leave SF

I'm a part of Eventbrite's engineering team in Nashville. I'm really bummed about this article. I think it's a shame that Lyft told a whole department "leave SF or lose your job". I agree it's problematic for a company to segregate customer support in a satellite office. Neither of those are how Eventbrite handled their expansion to Nashville. We're growing like crazy here across the business- engineering, finance, HR, support, sales... Yesterday we had a hot chicken lunch [0] to celebrate two new engineering hires. Tomorrow we'll christen some temporary office space to accomodate our newly-added sales team. Within a year, we'll be moved into a new space more than triple the size of our current office. Trust me, that's not because we're tripling the size of our support team. Within engineering, my coworkers in Nashville come from a number of different backgrounds, Many of them are experienced devs. Others are career changers via coding bootcamps. Most relevant to the article, some have come from our customer support team. People tend to stay at Eventbrite for a long time [1]. There may not be as clearly defined a career path as you'd find at a more established company, but you're not stuck doing the same thing forever. [0] It's a Nashville thing. If you haven't had it here, you're missing out. :-) [1] Although you see the real tenure in the original SF office, in Nashville no one in engineering has quit yet (if you don't count the guy who left for Y Combinator, then came back afterwards).