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it's already there in a large part of the country. being a swe in SF or NY is way different than being a swe in Birmingham, Alabama or Tampa, Florida or even a
by mixdup 8mo ago
it's already there in a large part of the country. being a swe in SF or NY is way different than being a swe in Birmingham, Alabama or Tampa, Florida or even a truly large city like Houston where you're writing internal software for a bank, or an oil company, or a hospital system. Most software jobs are not sexy startups or working for Netflix
- svnt 8mo agoYeah but why is working for Netflix even sexy? At the end of the day it is almost a telecom.
- DarkTree 8mo ago$$$
- triceratops 8mo agoIt's also almost a movie studio.
- mixdup 8mo agoI mean, maybe it's not, honestly it was the first FAANG that popped in my head as I typed the comment. But for most software engineers working at a place like that even as boring or not sexy as it may have become in SF, they won't ever even get close
- coffeebeqn 8mo agoThere hasn’t been anything sexy about working in big tech in over a decade