I’m from Austin and have met many tech people who want to move there. They’ll get a rude awakening when they actually look for jobs- it’s slim pickings and the satellite offices there for major tech companies often work on pretty boring products.
But dev jobs in general? there's a WIDE variety of companies to work for.
The best companies were Visa and Intel, back in 2013.
It’s definitely not a place where you can hop around every 2 years working for big brand names on the coolest tech (read: Java). A higher-end salary is 70-90k with maybe an ESPP vs a 300k package on the West Coast.
I’m definitely eager to go back but damn every time I check whoshiring it’s deflating.