What's the tech scene like in Boston?
We see a bunch of posts about Silicon Valley, Seattle, and NY, but are there any big companies or up-and-coming startups operating out of Boston? Is there a strong dev community? As a long-time fan of the city I'd love to find some good opportunities here.
There's a Google office in Kendall Square in Cambridge and Akamai, IBM Watson, Hubspot, etc are down the road as well
I just started at Amazon in Cambridge and they are growing immensely in Boston. Hmu
boston is a robotics hub: jibo, irobot, rethink robotics, boston dynamics, vecna, etc.
Ugh don't go to vecna. Honestly they are a terrible place to work
How's Jibo these days?
Jobcase also in Cambridge. MIT based, small team, 75 million members
Route 128 has been high tech for generations. As others said lots going on in East Cambridge, and a lot of new companies especially biotechnology in South Boston. Lots of military R&D.
Good ole 128. 10 miles from Boston, over an hour to get there...
Wayfair is the biggest Boston based tech giant. I think hubspot is #2
Wayfair is crappy php and junior devs.
I love it here. I work at a local startup downtown, but Cambridge is also fantastic.
Interesting. I've heard nothing but negative things about Wayfair like they pay way below market value and it's a glorified sweatshop. Had a few friends who worked there and they all have left.
Check out the biotech companies. Biology, robotics, automation and machine learning is reaching an interest point in history.
Oracle, HPE, Forrester all in Cambridge. Dell not far down the road.
Boston is awesome. Cambridge has a ton of startups and a lot of engineering and software in general exist around Boston. Super clean city too. Tons of smart people (like 1000 universities in the area) and you have MIT and Harvard and BU, Northeastern etc
Then why has Mathworks kept their office like 40 miles away from city ?
They've been in Natick since the 80s when they moved out of startup stage. Close enough to Boston if you wanna live there (I do, my commute is 12 miles/25 min from Brighton where I have T access), or if you wanna save some cash you can live outside of the city