Seems like a pretty common pattern to move from elsewhere in the world to the Silicon Valley, curious to see if people want to share experiences.
I mean I live in the United States and I don’t live in silicone valley but all I know is that is extremely expensive to live there and no one can find a job and there’s a lot of homeless people there. So good luck!
The question is broader than just SV, but I guess most people moving from abroad go there.
It was before. Not anymore. Rent for 1 bedroom apartment in San Jose/ Santa Clara runs around $3,500.00/Month. Regular gasoline is $5.00. Etc… All big tech companies are FIREING employees currently. Like previous post saud: Good luck!
I always felt that Silicon Valley was a bit overrated. It was definitely a good place to work, at least at one point in time. Since then, higher interest rates have killed investment, which everybody knows. But the other issue that’s practically never mentioned is that there’s very little innovation left to be done in the IT field. Ideas have run out, and people have realized by now how silly it is to make start-ups that just reinvent an age-old technology but over the internet.
In any case, I think there are plenty of other wonderful large cities to find good software jobs, based on personal experiences, things that I’ve read and other colleagues’ experiences: Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, New York, Los Angeles are (probably) the biggest outside of SV and all wonderful places to work. Others, like Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Toronto, London might be a bit smaller, but still great places to be. And in my opinion, they have less of the “hustle culture” that seems (or seemed) to be pervasive around SV. To be honest, they always seemed much more attractive to me.
Thank you for your insight!
I definitely wouldn’t. Like in the US people can just fire you, there’s like no job security so I’m definitely not moving across the world with a risk like that. Especially since I already got a job I can do from home.
