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Old 01-10-2013, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Hello,

I'm originally from Austin (grew up in North Austin), but have not lived in Texas for at least 20 years! I am relocating to Austin this summer (2013) from the SF Bay area in order to be closer to my family. I realize that Austin has changed a lot since I lived there, so I have questions about the tech jobs there.

I currently work from home as a Software Engineer and I plan to continue to work for the same company remotely (as I do now) after my move. However, if I decide to change jobs and end up having a job that I have to travel to, I'm wondering where would be a good place to live for the software jobs?

For example, I like Steiner Ranch, but it looks pretty far from where the software jobs might be.

Professionally, I tend to favor small start-up companies, but I am pretty open minded. I prefer web and mobile development, usually end to end. Where might be the types of companies that I would like to work for be located in Austin?
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Old 01-10-2013, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I've seen maps like this in people's offices; it's more related chip jobs but it might help give you an idea:
http://www.siliconmaps.com/SiliconHi..._placement.jpg

Northwest Austin probably has the largest concentration... and all along 360, some southwest. Probably most on the west side of town. Some companies (CSC, Facebook, Cirrus Logic, Silicon Labs) moved to the downtown area recently with downtown's 2000's growth spurt. Several midsize and small software companies are centrally located.
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Old 01-10-2013, 07:33 PM
 
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Downtown is indeed the "hot" location these days for tech companies (esp startups spending other folks money and wanting to attract young talent). One advantage to living downtown is that you'll sorta be reverse commute to the NW (more so in the mornings than the evening rush hours).

But indeed, being more NW will probably get you into the highest concentration and/or the most centralized area. Very few software jobs south of the river relative to the north. Ditto west vs east.

I know lots of software folk who live in Steiner, they like it and it's not too bad but the traffic can suck.
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Old 01-13-2013, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Thank you!
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Old 01-14-2013, 07:06 AM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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Yes - mostly NW and downtown.
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Old 05-14-2013, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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The Austin Chamber of Commerce has a nice 2011 map of the top 100 tech employers

http://www.austinchamber.com/do-busi...-high-tech.pdf
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Old 05-14-2013, 04:30 PM
 
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I've seen maps like this in people's offices; it's more related chip jobs but it might help give you an idea:
http://www.siliconmaps.com/SiliconHi..._placement.jpg
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FYI, I get a 404 for that link
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Old 05-14-2013, 04:43 PM
 
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The Austin Chamber of Commerce has a nice 2011 map of the top 100 tech employers

http://www.austinchamber.com/do-busi...-high-tech.pdf
Thanks for the link.

Interestingly, neither Google nor Qualcomm are listed. Surely, those companies were in Austin when this map/list was made (Fall 2011)? I wonder what the criteria was? Number of employees? I see 175 is the smallest number of employees (RenewData Corp.) on the list.
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