Does KC have a startup culture yet? There's always been ample engineering jobs (sprint, cerner, garmin, dst, perceptive, etc) but that's what I imagine you're d

Does KC have a startup culture yet? There's always been ample engineering jobs (sprint, cerner, garmin, dst, perceptive, etc) but that's what I imagine you're describing as traditional (as opposed to the less euphemistic "blue collar")? Those jobs provide a vastly different culture that appeals to a very different type of software engineer than you'll encounter in the Bay area, Austin, Seattle, Portland, NYC, etc. That culture is precisely why I left KC. It felt too much like I was living in a Dilbert cartoon. I agree on education though: KC places a very high level of importance on a degree as opposed to ones ability to get things done. This was a decade ago, but I lost count the number of BS/MS/PhD CS-degree-holders I interviewed in KC who couldn't code fizzbuzz.