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How firmly are you set on Vancouver? There's a massive difference by city (EDIT: commenters getting a job in one week are probably in one of the top listed citi

How firmly are you set on Vancouver? There's a massive difference by city (EDIT: commenters getting a job in one week are probably in one of the top listed cities) Venture-Capital Investment by City Rank Metro Venture Capital Investment (millions) Share of Global Venture Capital Investment 1 San Francisco $6,471 15.4% 2 San Jose $4,175 9.9% 3 Boston $3,144 7.5% 4 New York $2,106 5.0% 5 Los Angeles $1,450 3.4% 6 San Diego $1,410 3.3% 7 London $842 2.0% 8 Washington $835 2.0% 9 Beijing $758 1.8% 10 Seattle $727 1.7% 11 Chicago $688 1.6% 12 Toronto $628 1.5% 13 Austin $626 1.5% 14 Shanghai $510 1.2% 15 Mumbai $497 1.2% 16 Paris $449 1.1% 17 Bangalore $419 1.0% 18 Philadelphia $413 1.0% 19 Phoenix $325 0.8% 20 Moscow $318 From http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global-startup-cities-venture-capital/429255/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global...

hibikir 10y ago
Sure, but venture capital investment in not necessarily related to actual open programming jobs, and how easy it is to get them. A whole lot of jobs are at huge firms whose main activity is not to make software. In my experience, San Francisco is not the easiest place to go look for a job, or even close to the best idea: Living expenses are very high, interviewing processes are often very selective in ways that have little to do with job performance, and, in my experience, do not even have that great an average of quality in programming practices: Heck, I'd tell a new grad that, unless they landed in one of the very top employers there, that they'll be far better off in a different city. (Full disclosure, I currently work remote for a SF company that is pretty popular in HN)

hibikir 10y ago

Sure, but venture capital investment in not necessarily related to actual open programming jobs, and how easy it is to get them. A whole lot of jobs are at huge firms whose main activity is not to make software. In my experience, San Francisco is not the easiest place to go look for a job, or even close to the best idea: Living expenses are very high, interviewing processes are often very selective in ways that have little to do with job performance, and, in my experience, do not even have that great an average of quality in programming practices: Heck, I'd tell a new grad that, unless they landed in one of the very top employers there, that they'll be far better off in a different city. (Full disclosure, I currently work remote for a SF company that is pretty popular in HN)