[Kinnard]

That's interesting. I feel a lot of people are arguing that engineers will largely be safe and will fare any trouble better anyway being in a higher income percentile.

I was also under the impression that South Bay had at least a somewhat reasonable real estate market. I've never been down there.

Network engineering seems more specialized/technical than web dev too.

Best of luck.

[chiph]

If the firm is predominately staffed with engineers (either raw headcount, or by salary percentage), then there's no buffer against being laid off.