Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley

Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by jerf on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:23PM (#11197580)

If at all possible, you want to work where you're a net benefit and somehow directly visibly producing output the company is selling, not where you're a net cost.

Note how the word "computer" doesn't appear in that sentence; it's not unique to computer programming.

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Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by loopbit on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:30PM (#11197647)

Said in traditional business-speak:

Work in a profit center, not in a cost center.

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Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by zellyn on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:46PM (#11197821)

I'm on the Shared Systems team at Square, and was on Abuse prevention at YouTube, so I pretty much seem to only land in cost centers :-)

But I get to build RPC services and other cool infrastructure in Go.

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Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by lucaspiller on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:08PM (#11198016)

I work at an NGO that manages investment in farming. We have beuracracy bigger than most governments.

Still get to write cool stuff in Go, Node, Elixir or whatever else takes my fancy and tinker with IoT hardware during work hours :-)

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Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by Toenex on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:31PM (#11197663)

Thats a really nice way to phrase a sentiment I, and I would guess many other HN'ers have long felt.

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