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SF and Silicon Valley are super competitive, not exactly a good place for a recent grad with little to no experience. I'm not surprised they're not listed. It's probably a much better place once you have a few years under your belt.
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Basically what I'm saying is this list is a little silly. Tech grads should always first apply to the top tech companies, and those are in California and Seattle (generally, at least for the largest tech campuses). If they don't get hired there, then aim for these other cities.
i feel like tech grads should apply to life sciences, genome sequencing, bio-engineering, cancer research, ... first (which is more major in new england) and forget about being the next social network billionaire.
i feel like tech grads should apply to life sciences, genome sequencing, bio-engineering, cancer research, ... first (which is more major in new england) and forget about being the next social network billionaire.
Broad brush much? A vast majority of tech grads have nothing to do with the development of social networking platforms like Facebook. I personally work for a company that provides patient cost estimation to the healthcare industry.
Without looking I'd venture to guess that the top 3 IT sectors are defense, finance/insurance, and telecom.
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That entire point of the article was to identify those areas that are "secretly great" for tech grads. The Bay Area isn't "secretly great" and the article even mentions that its intention was to look beyond the Valley and New York. While there may be other CA cities that could have been listed, they would have been put through the same filter as all the cities considered.
Exactly, RE costs are high here, because it is competitive. And career growth here is second to none for tech.
It's like saying some city in fly over country is better for a grad working finance, versus starting their career at wall street.
It's all relative. Unless the pay is at least double you can't afford to "fly over" anywhere, so cost of living is a factor for sure. However, if you're young and single, there's no better time to try one of the expensive coastal cities. Once you have kids, adios.
It's all relative. Unless the pay is at least double you can't afford to "fly over" anywhere, so cost of living is a factor for sure. However, if you're young and single, there's no better time to try one of the expensive coastal cities. Once you have kids, adios.
Right, which is why Silicon Valley is filled with families. Because it's horrible for families too! LOL
I think that list is pretty good, considering their stated criteria of "networking opportunities, affordability and growth potential." And the title of the article is "10 cities that are secretly great for tech grads." Most people know that the Bay Area, Boston, Seattle, and New York are THE destinations if you can get a good job in the industry there. This is an article about ten other places. The only one that seems odd to me is Reston b/c that is a suburb of DC, and all of the others are standalone cities/metro areas.
That entire point of the article was to identify those areas that are "secretly great" for tech grads.
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I think that list is pretty good, considering their stated criteria of "networking opportunities, affordability and growth potential." And the title of the article is "10 cities that are secretly great for tech grads."
How on earth is Portland, OR "secretly" great for tech? That's pretty much all its known for. If it was Maine's, then yeah that might fit.
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