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I'm also surprised by Austin's rank. I'm from the area, but moved to SF a while back for much better engineering work. I wouldn't mind moving back some day, bu
by burlesona 7y ago
I'm also surprised by Austin's rank.
I'm from the area, but moved to SF a while back for much better engineering work. I wouldn't mind moving back some day, but haven't seen many jobs or much upward mobility that would make me want to go back. There are a lot of tech companies but they are largely smaller / regional, or are the cost centers of bigger companies (support, back office stuff).
I get the impression that's changing, though. It would be great to see ATX keep booming and reach the level of say, the Seattle tech scene.
- chrisco255 7y agoCurrently, Google has a 35 story building under construction downtown, Apple is expanding its Austin presence both with devs and manufacturing (new Mac Pro to be built here), Amazon and Facebook also expanding hiring here. A look at LinkedIn job openings shows VMWare, Walmart, Microsoft, Dell, Visa, Cloudflare, Mozilla, Auth0, Blizzard, and AMD all hiring here. I think Austin still lacks HQ anchors of bigger tech companies save for Dell. But the developer presence is absolutely growing.
- steveklabnik 7y agoI moved to Austin back in Feburary and I've met more folks from SF than folks from Austin.