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Comment by bcheung | Hacker News Reader

This is actually a very surprising statistic to me. I lived in LA and was not happy with the job offerings at all and moved back to the bay area where I'm originally from.

I'm also surprised that San Jose has 2x the concentration of software developers than San Francisco. Maybe its just because I have a startup bias and that seems to be the trend for startups. Very few startups in SJ compared to SF.

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Most of the established companies are in the San Jose area: Google, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Cisco, eBay, Netflix, major defense contractors, satellite campuses for Amazon and Microsoft, and lots of other companies. Altogether, they employ more engineers than all of the startups combined.

Netflix is quite small - some bigger companies include Intuit, Symantec, LinkedIn, and a slew of major semiconductor companies.

Facebook is pretty close as well.

Startups migrated towards SF because ironically the rent was cheaper...

Maybe compared to Palo Alto, but not most of the south bay. Most are going to SF, because it is "cooler", especially for 20 somethings.

It's really unclear what they are defining as SF vs. San Jose. If we're going by positions and metro areas, I'd believe this.

San Jose metro gets super-large companies (Google, Apple, etc.), which SF lacks. Oakland also is in the SF metro area, and lacks substantial number of software jobs.

I live in LA and the job offerings are ok but the housing market here is out of control. Problem is, the salaries are still a little bit lower. Or a lot lower.

Then again you've got the beach and some might say the dating scene is better. So there's that.

the commute to the middle bay area is a lot better from SJ than from SF.

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