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Comment by kevindeasis | Hacker News Reader

Since the main audience in HN are techies. I think if we put tech jobs and startups as part of the equation, those rankings will change dramatically.

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As a techie in Melbourne I can tell you I stand by my city being a great place to live and work for techies.

Which companies in Melbourne do you think are the most interesting, from a hacker point of view?

I know REA have a good engineering focus but there must be others

Carsales(.com.au) apparently have a decent culture and are located in Melbourne.

Maybe have a look at who goes to certain meetup groups that are relevant?

Carsales.com.au is mostly a PHP shop, if that floats your boat. REA is a ruby shop.

There are plenty of other smaller companies doing interesting work there, however!

Source: was living there 12 months ago

I am biased but the company I work for is cool. Interesting domain, hard problems with novel solutions and a global focus. http://biarrirail.com

Evanto is well known as a good place to work. BoM have a large presence in Melbourne as well and have some interesting problems. Though their culture isn't what it could be.

I don't know as the value equation is the same as most other jobs (techies are people too) with the difference being how many other people in your industry are around for networking and jobs. Melbourne is very livable although the real estate game is a pain. The choice for most people is rent near public transport or buy a home way out and spend an extra 40 mins on top of your normal commute time along with 10-15% more of your income.

The tech community here seems on par with Vancouver as far as software goes, but much less in terms of hardware. At least it's not as Enterprise oriented as Sydney seemed to be.

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