Whats the best company and office to join with these criteria in mind: You live in a big city, lots of stores, many things to do after work etc Nice friendly community Nice work life balance Basically, whats the “ideal” place for a SWE to live in in terms of city working for a good big tech company and having a good WLB? Some I have in mind: Twitter office at SF (inside the city not in the bay area) NYC Facebook / Google office Seattle offices (big tech companies) Im completely new to this so any kind of direction is appreciated!
Poll
Done
But poll is only for city. Bummer. It'd be great to see this for city + company combo.
London fits all the criterias but TC is low.
Eh, depends on the company, some come v close to Bay Area
I only know one - Palantir. What else?
Does San Diego qualify for this poll?
Retirement community? 😂
I would really love to settle in San Diego. Any tech giants apart from Qualcomm?
FB/G NYC
fyi twitter has sizeable offices in nyc, boulder, seattle, and sf. i think google also has satellite offices around the usa, but they might be smaller. as for nyc vs seattle vs sf, it's really up to personal preference! i think all three have varying levels of everything you listed, and it's just up to you to figure out what ratios of everything you want (eg how big of a city, how friendly, how much wlb)
Thank you!
Best question of the year
How would you make it better (besides adding a poll) ?