The 10 Best Cities for Engineering Jobs

Times are going to get tough for engineers in San Diego. Qualcomm is going to lay off several thousand employees in November. It's going to be bad for 1-2 years as engineers laid off in San Diego move to other cities in order to eat and keep a roof over their heads.

I've been unemployed since November 2014. I have the financial resources to sit this out if need be. I'd rather be working, but that doesn't seem to be an option at the moment.

Average salaries offered by what few jobs are advertised have dropped like a rock in the past 2-3 months, and the number of job openings has fallen precipitously. What job openings remain are of poor quality, and are swamped with applicants.

San Diego is a great place to live, but housing costs are sky high and with Qualcomm and others not hiring, it's going to be tough going for any unemployed engineers.

I think it is great to be a software engineer in Switzerland, partly because it is the only place where net-salaries are comparable to the Bay Area or NYC... I live in Zurich, read my story here: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland (to work in IT)": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...