Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job

Post by stevenwoo » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 11:16 PM UTC

electricslpnsld wrote: post #8

_raaq wrote: post #6

EX Denver developer here. Colorado Native. Now an Austin Dev (I'm a senior / lead android dev) I can safely say that the job market in Denver is terrible. Yes you can find work, but the company culture are terrible. I found myself with brogrammers that had 0 engineering style hobbies or being asked to work 60 hours every week. There are a few gems.. But the Jobs you want, aren't hiring mobile devs because their offic…

What type of position were you looking for? I have friends who do backend dev in Denver (lots of Go and Rails folks), and recruiters are beating down the doors to hire them. I haven't heard of anyone going for more than a few weeks before landing a solid gig in the area.

Post by tachyoff » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 11:20 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #7

commandlinefan wrote: post #4

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I grew up there. As bad as it might have been when you were there, you should try going in the wintertime. Orders of magnitude worse. You couldn't pay me enough to go back there.

But, assuming you just hate winter/snow, you've just described the entire northern tier of the US that's not right on the West Coast. Which is of course your prerogative. I'm just not terribly sympathetic to arguments that life isn't livable outside of the Bay Area because of the weather.

Post by starwind0 » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 11:37 PM UTC

kenhwang wrote: post #14

Can confirm that Los Angeles has wonderful supply of engineers and low demand for them. I would rather fight it out here and try my luck than move to Austin/Denver/Detroit though.

Post by matwood » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 11:43 PM UTC

starwind0 wrote: post #10

electricslpnsld wrote: post #8

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What type of position were you looking for? I have friends who do backend dev in Denver (lots of Go and Rails folks), and recruiters are beating down the doors to hire them. I haven't heard of anyone going for more than a few weeks before landing a solid gig in the area.

Android devs. We can find iOS easily. No one wants to do Android. Seems weird given that android is OS. But I live in Austin now, not Denver. Denver is terrible.

Post by Cyph0n » Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 11:49 PM UTC

starwind0 wrote: post #15

kenhwang wrote: post #14

Can confirm that Los Angeles has wonderful supply of engineers and low demand for them. I would rather fight it out here and try my luck than move to Austin/Denver/Detroit though.

I lived in San Diego. That was worse than Denver by a lot. I think I got 1 interview at, oh Jitterbug? Went back to Denver, now I am in Austin.