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> But the Big5 have tons of locations Name one Big5 job in the entire U.S. south. Or at least one that pays as well as them. There aren’t any.
by neutrino7 8y ago
> But the Big5 have tons of locations
Name one Big5 job in the entire U.S. south. Or at least one that pays as well as them.
There aren’t any.
- nunez 8y agoFacebook is in Austin; Amazon is in Dallas
- neutrino7 8y agoOk, so Texas is technically in the South... you got me. I suppose I should have clarified: major southeastern cities (Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, D.C., Nashville, Miami)
- blasdel 8y agoAWS has several thousand engineers in the Virginia suburbs of DC, with a bunch of local VP-level management (and that's not including anyone who works on the us-east-1 region)
- didibus 8y agoApple and Amazon could end up choosing Raleigh for their HQ2. So maybe that'll soon change.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoI've only ever lived in Raleigh and I'm very skeptical they'll pick Raleigh for HQ2. I'll be very excited if Apple ends up deciding on Raleigh though, it could easily push up salaries significantly.
- burlesona 8y agoAustin isn’t the south. Raleigh / Durham probably is the best tech scene in the south. No mega companies but a good number of second tier, ie. Redhat, Sas, Epic, and so on
- nunez 8y agoLast I checked, Austin is south of the Mason-Dixie line and has plenty of small towns around it that will be glad to remind you that you’re in the South. RDU definitely has an enterprise tech scene. So does DFW!
- akhilcacharya 8y agoGoogle's Skia team* is in Chapel Hill, Microsoft has a team in Raleigh working on VSTS. I know a few folks that have interned there.
- seattle_spring 8y agoThen don't live in the south. You'll get paid more, the weather will be nicer, and you'll meet less numbskulls with confederate flags painted on the hood of their trucks. Win/win/win.