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Chicago job market?
Moving to Chicago in a few months. My team at Google might not support a transfer to the Chicago office, since none of our teams sit there. Just curious how the job market is in Chicago for senior+ roles? I’m a senior TL on a Cloud team doing mostly full-stack work, 7 YOE. I would really like to stay at a somewhat comparable TC, but from what I’ve read so far my only options will be fintech (basically just Citadel). TC: 360
Chicago job market is only good if you are a C++ developer. Unfortunately companies here are a bit backwards in how they hire - they only value experience in a programming language rather than experience in software engineering in general. If you are a Java dev or other, you’ll have a bad time
Typescript and Golang :’)
While that is largely true, I believe FAANG engineers are an exception to that. There are a lot of non-C++ SWE roles in the trading firms in Chicago, and FAANG experience is pretty valued there.