Re:Market Conditions, Trends and Home Prices in San Francisco
by shados on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:34PM
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The big employers, for better or worse, in may cases still favor their mothership. Give the choice they seem to favor the HQ if they can. The satellite offices are required for scalability, but as long as they have capacity in the main office, they'll try and fill those slots up first.
At least its how it feels like.
Re:Market Conditions, Trends and Home Prices in San Francisco
by ghaff on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:45PM
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Oh. I don't disagree. I think it's hard to give up the mothership vs. satellite mentality. I work for a company that had two major locations fairly early on (not including SV) for historical reasons and that's doubtless one of the factors that's made it easier to be pretty distributed as time's gone on.
But, with the big employers, they're sufficiently big that everyone's no longer co-located in any meaningful sense anyway. Amazon seems to have already gotten this message with respect to Seattle (not just HQ2 but also, e.g., their Alexa building/hiring in the Boston Seaport).
I'm not sure how this plays out. Hopefully not with some massive tech crash. But I have to believe we're hitting (or have hit) peak salary for new hires in the Bay area and, at some point, most people are not going to live in a dorm to work for Facebook. And, if they are, that's sad.