I’ve been searching for a new job and looked at Austin and did some research. What’s the appeal? Are there that many tech jobs there?
From what I’ve seen you have a couple big players remote offices (Apple, Amazon , Facebook) . Most aren’t huge. The big players are really the only ones offering large salaries. The rest are very average / maybe slightly above average when compared to the rest of the country’s tech sector.
The rest of the tech jobs/companies looked very “meh”. And that’s not to insult Austin’s scene. It’s more a comparison to other medium sized tech cities . Austin didn’t seem all that much better when it really came down to number of opportunities.
Am I missing something here in regards to Austin?
(Not a shit post on Austin. I just would like to know what everyone else sees as far as career growth and opportunities in Austin)
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Back in the days we had few unicorns startups and VC scene was very active and they started calling Austin as the Silicon Hills. But most of them had bad exits, notables VCs also left the scene as well.
In a nutshell- if you are making less than $200k and having hard time to maintain a decent quality of life - Austin is for you.
But if you are making more than $200k, want to continue working on interesting projects, looking for future growth - stay away from Austin. Once you cross 250-300k mark, your options will get very very limited.
Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, even LA - much better options if you are good at what you do.
I’m < 40, TC: 430k+ and I don’t give a shit to FIRE. I want to work as long as I can but I don’t see many options in front of me after I just promoted to L7
Also, I hate long term remote