[mixdup]

it's already there in a large part of the country. being a swe in SF or NY is way different than being a swe in Birmingham, Alabama or Tampa, Florida or even a truly large city like Houston where you're writing internal software for a bank, or an oil company, or a hospital system. Most software jobs are not sexy startups or working for Netflix

[coffeebeqn]

There hasn’t been anything sexy about working in big tech in over a decade

[svnt]

Yeah but why is working for Netflix even sexy? At the end of the day it is almost a telecom.

[DarkTree]

$$$

[triceratops]

It's also almost a movie studio.

[mixdup]

I mean, maybe it's not, honestly it was the first FAANG that popped in my head as I typed the comment. But for most software engineers working at a place like that even as boring or not sexy as it may have become in SF, they won't ever even get close