Shocker: It’s mostly men moving to Seattle for tech jobs. For every four men who moved to Seattle for a tech job in the last decade, only one woman did, too, according to a recent analysis that looked at the trend of tech transplants nationwide.

I replied to them too. Cowards don't like being wrong :)

A good four-year computer science graduate starting salary is ~$120k because there's a limited supply of skilled labor. Part of the issue is learning everything in four years is hard, the successful students started learning earlier... the other half is that smart adults often struggle to switch careers - it's expensive.

"IT as a cost center" is outdated. The trend is businesses renting "cloud" services, developing their internal tools into products, or investing in tech to automate other manual labor...

You're They were talking about the immigrants replacing Americans doing low-value labor, ultimately doomed jobs. I'm talking about how Amazon/Microsoft import thousands of people to work with Americans doing high-skill work because we don't have enough qualified Americans.

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