South Bay is 1-2 hours from SF, pretty much any company in San Jose can be 2 hours from SF depending on traffic
Apple, depending on traffic or how you get there.
^^^ exactly! People just don't understand how bad the traffic and transportation systems around here can be, especially the northbound evening commute hours.
My choice would have been IBM though, being as far as I can recall the most distant major tech campus from San Francisco. It's 90 minutes by car or 3 hours by train.
nobody moves to the bay area to work for IBM
Had a couple colleagues when I lived in Austin leave for SF to work for IBM...
I think it's safe to say that literally thousands of people have moved to the Bay Area for work for IBM.
I work in SF near the Transamerica Pyramid. Sometimes I go to meetups at or near Samsung in Mountain View. I have to leave at 5 to get there by 6:45 if I'm lucky. And, that's after finding lower-traffic routes. Otherwise, half of the trip is just getting through the city.
Most of them are near a 2 hour drive, if you are anywhere around commute hours and you live in a typical (not right off the freeway) area in SF. To name a couple, Intel and Cisco.