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> maybe hire talent Are most of the bay area developers bay area natives? I was under the impression they were mostly immigrants under H1B contracts that coul
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> maybe hire talent
Are most of the bay area developers bay area natives? I was under the impression they were mostly immigrants under H1B contracts that could live anywhere in the US.
- ghaff 5y agoI doubt if they are mostly H1B immigrants but, yes, they could mostly work anywhere in the US. But many went to school in CA and decided to stay there or, to my other point, they like living in CA for whatever reason. I don't and never have lived in CA but I've spent a lot of time there and I do see the attraction other than CoL and some other downsides. And there are certainly areas of the US that for me would heavily weigh against any employment opportunity offered there. (Though I'm full remote at this point anyway.)
- nine_zeros 5y agoA non trivial amount of strong immigrant engineers are in SV. Ask me how hard it is to hire hundreds of engineers without faang funding in a tier 2 city.
- muzz 5y agoStrong immigrant engineers that came in the 1990s now have adult children that in the workforce. A personal anecdote, it was indeed a bit surprising to hear my coworker at a startup mention that his mother joined a startup.
- shuckles 5y agoI’ve worked at startups where a third of the workforce share the same Bay Area high school alma matter. The scale of the ecosystem is without compare.
- razorfen 5y agoYou may not be in one job forever, and you can move between about 10,000 tech companies through a long career if you are in the Bay.
- muzz 5y agoDecades of self-sorting have occurred