Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?
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Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?
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#2Is it time for this soon-to-be computer science grad to move to the Valley? Is this a good or a bad thing for new grads?
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#3Is it time for this soon-to-be computer science grad to move to the Valley? Is this a good or a bad thing for new grads?
If you are looking for a big company job, it shouldn't be too hard to get one before moving. The burn rate on living expenses is pretty high out here unless you have a valley-sized salary too, so I recommend that. Apply to Google. :) You can always leave for a startup once your short-term finances are secure.
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#4Is it time for this soon-to-be computer science grad to move to the Valley? Is this a good or a bad thing for new grads?
If you're smart and ambitious, I think yes, you should move here. The reason I make the advice conditional is that it's an expensive place to live; if you don't burn to work for a startup, you might be better off elsewhere.
My sense is that the demand is skewed toward the top end of the market, i.e., the best developers are getting much more difficult to find; I don't know if you'll see the same demand/supply imbalance at the entry level. Still, if you intend to get to be one of the best, this is the place to do it.
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#5Definitely been seeing a serious uptick in hiring around here -- and I've been on and off the job market for over a year. Things were looking up last Spring (around the time I picked up my current consulting gig) but things are noticeably better now.
I should point out that in normal, 'healthy' years, November is a time of declining job openings. Companies generally wait until January for budgets to turn around, etc. Not this year, though.
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#6This article seems to imply that "acqui-hires" are a tool to bring in great engineers, but I feel like Facebook and others are after great entrepreneurs.
Perhaps the final sentence should be changed to: "Now might be a good time to leave school and start a company."
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#7The valley?? The real story of talent drought is in New York City. Recently there has been a gigantic explosion of startups with lots of funding, but _very_ few great engineers available.
As CEO of a just-funded tech startup, I am budgeting ~70% of my time to personally recruit a Lead Developer and Senior Software Engineer (despite having a technical background myself).
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#8I had emails from 7 different recruiters today so people are definitely hiring experienced developers right now.
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#9If startups branched out from Silicon Valley more often, new technological epicenters would form, alleviating the shortage.
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#10Is it time for this soon-to-be computer science grad to move to the Valley? Is this a good or a bad thing for new grads?
If you're looking for a first job then probably yes.
Quality of life for a young, single male in the Valley is pretty low though. After 10 years in the Bay Area I'm moving to NYC where women actually exist.