Have you ventured into Orange County ? Not everybody that works or is willing to work in LA lives in LA. Try looking a little more south, specially Irvine. Fro

Have you ventured into Orange County ? Not everybody that works or is willing to work in LA lives in LA. Try looking a little more south, specially Irvine. From what I have seen there are a LOT of .Net developers in LA and Orange County, if your stack is .Net you should not have a problem finding good people. Ruby and Python developers are a pain to find. A lot of the "Good" developers are not even proficient in the language/tools. There are good java developers here, but not as much as .Net developers. Tips: * Use LinkedIn to find people in LA, Orange County and even San Diego. * Target user groups. There are a lot of good developers in the UG and they usually have friends that are developers as well. * Always get recommendations from people that know the developer you are interested. I have even seen some startups that only hire people that have been recommended from someone they know.