If this is a PR Article, it works. This school seems kind of cool
Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
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Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#52Isn't this a little weird? Why not choose Boston that is very close to MIT and Harvard. Why not choose SF which is very close to UC Berkeley and Stanford? NYC isn't even close to Cornell (~4 hours).
Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#53Isn't this a little weird? Why not choose Boston that is very close to MIT and Harvard. Why not choose SF which is very close to UC Berkeley and Stanford? NYC isn't even close to Cornell (~4 hours).
Did you even read the article? Cornell Tech is in New York City.
Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#54New York made New York appealing to Amazon. Snark aside, it’s unlikely one can link Amazon’s decision to a single factor. New York being what it has has a large number of assets in its favor: a huge, mobile workforce, strong business community, strong sales community, deep tech pool, a strong transit system, legitimately a world-class city...
strong transit system? no
Name a single city in the US that has a better one.
NYC doesn't compare to Europe or Asia, of course, but it's streets ahead of anything else in the US.
*Note: there is SO MUCH wrong with the MTA and the NYC subway system, but it's currently the best in the country, unfortunately.
Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#55Isn't this a little weird? Why not choose Boston that is very close to MIT and Harvard. Why not choose SF which is very close to UC Berkeley and Stanford? NYC isn't even close to Cornell (~4 hours).
Did you even read the article? Cornell Tech is in New York City.
My question still stands?
> Why not choose Boston that is very close to MIT and Harvard. Why not choose SF which is very close to UC Berkeley and Stanford?
Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#56New York made New York appealing to Amazon. Snark aside, it’s unlikely one can link Amazon’s decision to a single factor. New York being what it has has a large number of assets in its favor: a huge, mobile workforce, strong business community, strong sales community, deep tech pool, a strong transit system, legitimately a world-class city...
New York is definitely a world-class city, but Amazon had the opportunity to attract talent to make a city that is not currently a world-class city into one but instead selected an already established one
difference is, NYC has all the talented MBAs, engineers and other smart people who will work 60+ hours a week already. that kind of culture just isn't present in many other cities
Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes -- that big donation was exactly the thumb GP is talking about. :) It came from / was organized by Bloomberg, who seems to have had a strong preference for a NY school. But there were also other reasons Stanford withdrew, including the weirdness of how real estate works in NYC.
> Yes -- that big donation was exactly the thumb GP is talking about. :) It came from / was organized by Bloomberg, who seems to have had a strong preference for a NY school. First, Bloomberg himself didn't choose the winner; he was detached from the competitive process. Bloomberg launched the competition and also later donated money to the winner (Cornell), but those were separate events. Second, Bloomberg himself a…
Rumors and idle speculation of course. As mayor, Bloomberg would have had to keep his opinion obscured anyway...
Re: Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
The $4.6b in subsidies also helped make NY more appealing to Amazon. >“The taxpayer costs of these two deals is high, both in absolute terms and on a per-job basis, contrary to Amazon’s artful spin. Together, we believe they exceed $4.6 billion and the cost per job in New York is at least $112,000, not the $48,000 the company used in a selective and incomplete press release calculation. [1] [1] https://www.goodjobsfi…
That seems a bit extreme, but that was the response from our engineers in Detroit. Amazon claimed we didn't have enough programmers, but the reality is that most of our programmers are picked up by automotive companies. There is talent, but they are already high in demand. If amazon admitted they didn't want to exceed our 6 figure salaries, the response would have been better. Instead I see Amazon as an increasingly…
Automotive doesn’t pay well by tech standards. Amazon’s engineers in Detroit are paid far better than their automotive counterparts.
Detroit has a good tech talent base, but sadly, it isn’t up-to-par with the coastal tech hubs.