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Re:Ask HN: What cities have the best salary / cost of living... by cbHXBY1D on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:37PM (#12601919)
Do any of the large tech companies (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple) have offices in Chicago?
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Re:Ask HN: What cities have the best salary / cost of living... by remyp on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:52PM (#12602003)
Google has a significant presence, though my understanding is it's mostly sales.

Chicago has a well-diversified economy, so it's not dominated by any one industry or company. There are a ton of bigcorp jobs, but they're more likely to be for companies like Hyatt, Walgreens, McDonalds, United, Allstate, etc. Legal and finance (particularly quantitative & algorithmic trading) are big as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What cities have the best salary / cost of living... by ansible on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:52AM (#12605215)
The Chicagoland area used to be a telecom powerhouse with plenty of software jobs in the area. This was 15 years ago.

We had: Motorola (before all the splits), Lucent, Westel, Telabs, USR, 3Com and more I'm probably forgetting.

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Re:Ask HN: What cities have the best salary / cost of living... by FT_intern on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @08:45PM (#12602532)
No, the high compensation (and high head count) companies are HFT/prop trading firms
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