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The Bay Area has around 7.75 million people, so 1k people is around 0.013% of the population. So even if only 2% of the Bay Area works in tech, this would be 0.
by eindiran 6y ago
The Bay Area has around 7.75 million people, so 1k people is around 0.013% of the population. So even if only 2% of the Bay Area works in tech, this would be 0.64% of the tech workers. According to this, it looks like it is closer to 12% of residents work in tech: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/14/tech-employment-bay-area-reaches-record-highs-google-apple-facebook-adobe/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/14/tech-employment-bay-a...
So that would mean this is about 0.12% of the tech workers in the Bay Area.
- bla3 6y agoThanks. Seems like a better headline might be "Tiny fraction of Bay Area residents apply to..."