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I live in Madison and believe it or not we have coastal VC-backed startups (including my own and a SoftBank-backed unicorn or two) and lots of professional engi
by yesimahuman 5y ago
I live in Madison and believe it or not we have coastal VC-backed startups (including my own and a SoftBank-backed unicorn or two) and lots of professional engineers. A lot of people on the coasts are frankly just not that knowledgeable outside of their bubble and that’s okay, it really doesn’t mean that what the Midwest has isn’t significant. I have actually grown to quite like being an under the radar city for all the benefits that brings and having a different perspective on America
- neartheplain 5y agoThere's also a full-fledged Google office in Madison, in addition to their offices in Chicago and (soon) Rochester, Minnesota. Working as a developer and living in the Midwest doesn't necessarily mean leaving Big Tech.
- hellisothers 5y agoI love Chicago and Minnesota but the Google offices in the MW tend to be data center jobs which I see complaints aren’t really “tech” jobs so much as supporting be data center. I recall a lot of the jobs were even sourced through temp agencies.
- BooneJS 5y agoI work at Google Madison with many other software and silicon engineers. Come take a look! https://careers.google.com/locations/madison/ https://careers.google.com/locations/madison/ Nearest DC is in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
- yesimahuman 5y agoThere are data center jobs, yes, but there are many engineering/research oriented big tech offices, especially in college towns