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Comment by kaspm | Hacker News Reader

Worked in Tech in Los Angeles since 2000. Although lesser known as "tech" companies, there are several companies that have large investments in serious technology in LA:

Disney NBCU (specifically Fandango, parts of former M-Go) Ticketmaster/Live Nation eHarmony Edmunds.com The Honest Company

Other Tech companies left off the list: Hulu Yahoo (much smaller than before) AOL Hyperloop One and Faraday Future are coming up

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Disney Animation (Burbank) employees a fair number of tech peeps.

glassdoor salary for systems engineer there is real low

I'm not surprised -- they pulled some shady moves with visas and stuff a couple years back too.

Glassdoor salaries always look low

Interesting, they're all media companies.

Yes. In LA almost all serious tech jobs are media company related.

Factual.com Location Data company with some serious tech chops.

What about aerospace and defense?

Perhaps "media" is too broad a term. I think there's a concentration of certain types of industries - entertainment video, gaming, ecommerce, adtech, automotive, some fintech, some social media.

What there isn't a lot of is "engineering", "cloud", "enterprise" technology. The GitHubs, Herokus, AWSs of the world are not yet here in LA. For those of us who are engineering focused, we generally do tech for companies that don't "sell" technology to other engineers, that's focused in SF and Seattle. Not any less valid just a different audience.

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