A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle's housing affordability

Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by amarkov on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:51PM (#16942745)

For career driven people, it's not enough that just some company will hire them for something. And there are very few cities where it's easy to find a job matching the skills and expertise of e.g. a Microsoft tech lead.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by WorldMaker on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:17PM (#16942952)

Much less cities where you have the opportunity at multiple such large companies. Seattle has Amazon's HQ as well as Microsoft's, and presences from Facebook and Google.

You can be a Microsoft tech lead in Raleigh-Durham, too, but you aren't going to have as many opportunities with Amazon/Facebook/Google/etc there.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by rhapsodic on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:21AM (#16946049)

>And there are very few cities where it's easy to find a job matching the skills and expertise of e.g. a Microsoft tech lead.

Actually, I doubt that Microsoft tech leads are as special as all that.

[ Parent | on HN ]