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NYC is already an engineering office on a large scale. There are major services single-homed there with elite engineers and no competition from MTV.

My entire engineering team is in the NYC office. We've made some front page headlines on HN. https://registry.google for more info.

And we're very small compared to the Search, Cloud, ads, Maps, etc. engineering presences.

Ah OK, I wasn't aware. In terms of purely engineering talent, how would you rank Google's Mountain View, Seattle, NYC and London offices?

NYC is #2 worldwide by engineering size, ahead of Seattle, London, and SF.

Thanks. This news is a pretty big deal then.

I don't think you mean size. In which case it is very hard for anyone to judge the quality of engineers everywhere.