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Sure, Silicon Valley and New York get attention for being the best places to work in tech. But for new graduates looking for growth and mentorship, hoping to stand out, and facing their first student loan bills, paying $2,000 a month in rent is less than ideal. As college seniors are weighing offers, negotiating salaries and trying to decide where they'll be after graduation, DataFox crunched the numbers to find 10 cities with the networking opportunities, affordability and growth potential that should put them on the radar of any new grad who wants to work in tech.
it seem like college grad are unfamiliar with a very strange thing called "suburbs"... like they all want to live downtown even when they can not afford them, when they talk about NYC, they only believe NYC = Manhattan and a small part of downtown Brooklyn... In Staten island and Queens, you could easily find a 1 bedroom apartment for less than $1500... If you look at the suburb, you have Great neck, jersey city, Hoboken... Even SF you can find affordable suburbs apartment...
Seattle is filled with recent college grads hired by Microsoft and Amazon. These guys in their early twenties are earning a very solid salary and can easily afford a nice living in the city. The idea that college grads "need" to find "affordable" cities isn't always the case when you have good-salary jobs that are open to young grads.
Basically what I'm saying is this list is a little silly. Tech grads should always first apply to the top tech companies, and those are in California and Seattle (generally, at least for the largest tech campuses). If they don't get hired there, then aim for these other cities.
Seattle is filled with recent college grads hired by Microsoft and Amazon. These guys in their early twenties are earning a very solid salary and can easily afford a nice living in the city. The idea that college grads "need" to find "affordable" cities isn't always the case when you have good-salary jobs that are open to young grads.
Basically what I'm saying is this list is a little silly. Tech grads should always first apply to the top tech companies, and those are in California and Seattle (generally, at least for the largest tech campuses). If they don't get hired there, then aim for these other cities.
Yeah, for sure the cities I suggested are not an exhaustive list. I'm just referring to cities that are probably some of the most expensive in the country are, despite that, the best places for tech grads; that is, if they want to work for the more renowned (and highest paying) companies.
Seattle is filled with recent college grads hired by Microsoft and Amazon. These guys in their early twenties are earning a very solid salary and can easily afford a nice living in the city. The idea that college grads "need" to find "affordable" cities isn't always the case when you have good-salary jobs that are open to young grads.
Basically what I'm saying is this list is a little silly. Tech grads should always first apply to the top tech companies, and those are in California and Seattle (generally, at least for the largest tech campuses). If they don't get hired there, then aim for these other cities.
crazy thing about Amazon is that lot and lot of amazon sellers are making way more per year than most Amazon employees
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