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I'm just pointing out that that's a really lame comparison. It's like asking why you would choose to go to college and get a high-paying job instead of just wo
by Grishnakh 11y ago
I'm just pointing out that that's a really lame comparison. It's like asking why you would choose to go to college and get a high-paying job instead of just working at the grocery store (that might be exaggerating a bit).
No one is going to come down to a choice of defense contractor vs. Apple. They aren't even located in the same place: defense contractors have no presence in Silicon Valley that I've ever heard of. So you can't even make a choice between the two without considering a cross-country move (military stuff tends to be concentrated on the east coast), though there's a bunch in Phoenix too.
A better comparison would be defense contractor vs. working at some small generic commercial company. They can be located near each other, both are likely to have lousy pay for engineers/programmers, and neither is going to look that great on a resume (actually, depending on what you work on, the defense contractor will probably look better).
- dragonwriter 11y agoThere are plenty of defense contractor jobs on the west coast, including the SF Bay Area (though, a lot more in SoCal than the Bay Area.)
- Grishnakh 11y agoApple's in Cupertino. How many defense contractors are near there? SoCal is not commutable from Cupertino, any more than Seattle is.
- dragonwriter 11y agoQuite a few; the aerospace/defense section of the Wikipedia page on Bay Area companies listed several, for instance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_t...
- mikeash 11y agoPlenty of people move to go work for Apple, it's not like their hiring pool is limited to the Bay Area. In any case, if you think that some small generic commercial company would be a better comparison, then pretend I said that. My point has nothing to do with Apple, it was just a convenient example.