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I've always been confused as to why Chicago isn't more of a tech hub. Great city, great people, cheap housing, good transportation (by US standards), good schoo
by tmccrmck 9y ago
I've always been confused as to why Chicago isn't more of a tech hub. Great city, great people, cheap housing, good transportation (by US standards), good schools, etc.
Are the Google, Microsoft, and Amazon offices engineering offices? I know that the Microsoft one is not.
- wenc 9y agoYou know what, I'm not sure. I just a did a quick google, and Amazon is hiring a lot of architects and consultants but no open SDE positions. Google has SDE positions open. A lot of the tech folks here work for financial companies.
- closeparen 9y agoWhen I looked, Chicago had: - Cost center IT departments for the healthcare and insurance sectors out in the exurbs (presumably low respect and high risk of outsourcing). - Quant trading for the commodities market downtown (and really nothing else, unless finance is your cup of tea). I'd love to work for a SV-style technology company in Chicago.
- wenc 9y agoI don't think there is an SV-style company outside of SV because the SV ecosystem is not really replicable. That said, Chicago has quite a few non-finance tech companies: - Vividseats - Grubhub - Spothero - Sproutsocial - Uptake - Orbitz - HERE technologies - Trunk Club There are a myriad of smaller startup companies you've never heard of, as well as traditional corporate types like IBM, etc.