[dmode]

Your examples are very few. May be to balance you can post some other companies, like Uber: https://www.uber.com/careers/list/?team=engineering

Here is twitter, with 95 openings in SF: https://careers.twitter.com/content/careers-twitter/en/jobs-...

That is close to 400 openings for Software engineers in SF among just 2 companies. it will take a lot of New Relics to compensate for that kind of demand. And I haven't even linked to Google, FB, Apple (each of them hire thousands of engineers in SF), Lyft, Airbnb, Salesforce etc. I feel like the advice in HN is more of what people wish it would be, but doesn't reflect. The original article is spot on and is remarkably good career advice for anyone who is starting out. Go West.

[eldavido]

All I'm saying is that there's a choice.

You have to ask, why will companies pay $180K or more in salary when equivalently good people (and I really do mean this) are available at half the cost elsewhere?

How is this sustainable long-term?

And to what extent is the behavior of young firms a bellwether for the future? I really wouldn't bet against this trend.