A look at Seattle’s tech employment field

The Seattle Times’ article Where’d The Whiz Kids Go? – Seattle could become the new Detroit looks at the drop off in computer science graduates and how it’s affecting Seattle:

In fact, right now a UW student with a bachelor’s degree in computer science can expect to make $75,000 in his or her first year. Top students are also being routinely lured with $20,000 signing bonuses — something not seen since the late 1990s.


Here’s a crazy statistic:

Among the 33,000 Microsofties working in Puget Sound, at least 11,000 are foreign-born.


There’s also a bunch of quotes from Glenn at Redfin:

“Google’s taken a money-is-no-object approach to hiring,” says Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, a Seattle startup that allows people to buy and sell homes online. “It’s really skewed the playing field.”


This is bad news for the tech companies because it’s hard to get talent, but good for us workers because we can easily move between jobs and receive higher salaries.

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2 Responses to A look at Seattle’s tech employment field

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  2. JC says:

    I’m sure what Redfin loses in higher salaries, it makes up in all the expensive real-estate that the Google-rich buy and sell.

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