Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene?

Re:Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene? by scottkrager on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @01:07AM (#2512863)

As far as gigs/jobs, check out:

Salaries are on the lower end, but so is cost of living here. Lightbox to avoid SAD not included.

The Portland Seed Fund is launching this summer, which might bring some sexiness to the startup scene. COLORlovers just got 1mil and so did ShopIgnitor a few months back. So there is some action here for sure.

Portland is a big digital media agency town. Webtrends is here and lots of SEO/online marketing shops. GetClicky is here as well (go analytics!).

Not sure about interview questions.

I just hired a PHP dev strait from school at 50K/year. Hope that helps. Good luck.

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Re:Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene? by pepsi_can on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @01:52AM (#2512922)

Is 50K/year typical for a development position in Portland? Seems a little on the low side.

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Re:Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene? by gojomo on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @03:00AM (#2513012)

If comparing to Bay Area salaries, keep in mind there's a pretty big difference in cost-of-living. According to this cost-of-living-calculator:

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...

   $50K Portland
  =$74K San Francisco

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Re:Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene? by larrykubin on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @04:44PM (#2515230)

Thank you very much for your insight.

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