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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i... by acchow on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:11AM (#14872342)
Their data is obviously broken. If you look at the source, it is "Indeed", which is obviously not an unbiased sample of data.

Let's pick a huge employer in Silicon Valley, Facebook, and search for jobs on Indeed.

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=facebook&l=Menlo+Park%2C+CA

Not a single Software Engineer position.

And I really don't think hot San Francisco startups are using Indeed to look for talent, which is why SF falls so low on their rankings

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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i... by walshemj on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:19AM (#14872996)
Indeed is a scraper with lots of low quality inventory or as my boss ex Total Jobs director said "shit inventory".

Tier one employers don't normally advertise on indeed

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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i... by acchow on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:21PM (#14876792)
Exactly.

Which is also why Indeed's previous article "Where are the Highest Paying Tech Jobs in the US" is complete garbage. Shows SV average at $111k. SV and SF have disproportionately high portion of Tier 1 companies and positions, many of which will never show up on Indeed.

How can you talk about SV without Facebook? Facebook has 20k employees, about half of them in SV.

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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i... by stult on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:57AM (#14873563)
Where do they advertise?
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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i... by kcorbitt on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:02AM (#14873585)
Top-50 universities, reaching out to engineers with reasonable resumes directly and leveraging the networks of their employees with referral bonuses. Plus way more inbound interest than they can easily vet.
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Re:Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating i... by heartbreak on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:36AM (#14874140)
So recruiters and referral bonuses.
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