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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
Where do they advertise?
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Isn't Johns Hopkins a medical university? Not exactly a Silicon tech hub.
Johns Hopkins has a medical school. But they have other schools too!
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As a former Baltimore resident, what exactly makes you think Baltimore fails the sniff test? For example, Johns Hopkins University is IIRC the highest-funded research-focused university in the USA. (Edit - adding link to support above : Johns Hopkins leads U.S. universities in research spending for 37th consecutive year : https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/12/07/research-spending-hopkins-nsf... )
Isn't Johns Hopkins a medical university? Not exactly a Silicon tech hub.
I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): https://www.cbre.com/research-and-reports/Scoring-Tech-Talen... I'm biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking: Bay Area Seattle New York Was…
I was like, hot damn, cheap housing and good paying jobs, I'm moving to Baltimore!!
(Seriously, though, hit me up via my HN profile if you're interested in getting a sense of what the industry and life in general are like here - it's a great town that's been very good to me, and I'm always happy to talk about it!)
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Cheap housing and long travel times are not enviable at all.
As far as long travel times go, trains can be good because you can take your laptop and it's usable time to work on your own projects, watch a movie, play games etc. I'd be more concerned (with zero knowledge of washington) over whether or not the train + connections would take me near most of the tech jobs.
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As far as long travel times go, trains can be good because you can take your laptop and it's usable time to work on your own projects, watch a movie, play games etc. I'd be more concerned (with zero knowledge of washington) over whether or not the train + connections would take me near most of the tech jobs.
There is a cost to having to commute more than an hour to work compared to living 5 minutes to work by walk. Once you try the difference you won't go back unless there are serious economic differences between the two choices.
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>Bellevue, Shoreline, Northshore That's the issue. It's all urban flight to suburbs. I live in the inner city and see it every day.
And of course, that means heavy commuting and long drives to where the tech campuses are.
Nothing new with east and north side schools being better than Seattle schools. It was that way in the early 90s when I was in HS.
Disappointed Los Angeles didn't make the list but not surprising. LA has all the right things like colleges (UCLA USC Caltech and others) and same CA employment laws as Silicon Valley. It has big companies like Snapchat but just can't seem to cross that threshold into major tech hub. Maybe Hollywood is just too dominant here, similar to how NYC isn't on the list because finance dominates there.
When I lived in Los Angeles, a significant amount of tech jobs I applied / interviewed for where in the industry. It's possible they are over-looking all the major studios (Sony, NBC, etc), along with the very large support for gaming and movies. Data pipeline, meta data management, and streaming are just a few things that are popular out there. I think the difference is that many companies in LA are smaller and inde…
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Cheap housing and long travel times are not enviable at all.
As far as long travel times go, trains can be good because you can take your laptop and it's usable time to work on your own projects, watch a movie, play games etc. I'd be more concerned (with zero knowledge of washington) over whether or not the train + connections would take me near most of the tech jobs.
Can be, but often aren't. The trains in the three busiest commuter rail lines are not really conducive to laptop use if you are my height (6'4") because of the seat pitch. I have tried to use my XPS 13 on NJTransit trains, but I need to hope I get a row to myself so I can slant sideways to actually get my laptop at a usable angle.
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I had a much different experience applying for jobs as a data scientist in Atlanta - of the companies I got offers for, the base salaries + total comp were similar to what glassdoor reported for data scientists in silicon valley, albeit just a hair lower. According to the various online cost-of-living calculators, I'd have to be making about $200k in the Bay Area to be living the same lifestyle. Though looking at gla…
> I got two guys with Master degrees for $20k less than what you wanted.") but not so good for employees on the upper end of the pay scale. MIT grad, data scientist here. Again, if you are not a top data scientist, it will work fine for you. I routinely get offered $300K/year as a recent PhD grad in the Bay area. I would not get anywhere near proportional compensation in Atlanta or even Seattle.