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SF and San Jose have tech workforce of roughly the same size (~350K people). San Jose is, however, significantly more focused on legacy corporations (Oracle, C
by legerdemain 4y ago
SF and San Jose have tech workforce of roughly the same size (~350K people).
San Jose is, however, significantly more focused on legacy corporations (Oracle, Cisco, IBM). It's also the city of subcontractor companies and rent-a-developer jobs. It has basically zero "tech enthusiast" culture of meetups, reading groups, hackathons, and tech communities.
My experience with people from San Jose is that they like beer and church.
- reducesuffering 4y ago> My experience with people from San Jose is that they like beer and church. That's an odd stereotype for one of the least-religious places in the US.
- legerdemain 4y agoI have never, anywhere else I've lived in the US, overheard more conversations between young men trying to get into church youth leadership, or how to contribute back to the church, or who are promising people to proselytize to, or who is "straying" and how to fix that, or confessing their weaknesses to each other, than I have eating out in South Bay restaurants. As in, as recently as last Friday, I spent an entire dinner night out eating steamed dumplings and overhearing this exact conversation. I've heard it in restaurants and I've heard it in cafes and I've heard it from people just chatting outside. Discussing their admiration for their pastor, or comparing notes about the churches their friends attend. I can easily expect to overhear a "church conversation" by just going to a social place on any given day. It must be some kind of little-known secret that South Bay is really, really churchy.