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Nowhere near it - and neither do most other developers in the US.

Wasn’t trying to imply that’s the case. I’d love to move out of the Bay Area, just to get away from the whole “leetcode or GTFO” interview style, but the fact that there are so many opportunities around here keeps me here for the moment. Well, that and I can actually make enough money to pay my student loans while living somewhat comfortably and saving a little money. If I knew anyplace that had decent weather where I could do those things, I’d be looking at the next flight out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,_Texas#Economy

That is just Plano. There are arguably more opportunities around each of North Dallas and Addison. The cost of living here is a third of the bay area and that isn't including the size of house. This is why California is bleeding 60k people a year to north Texas.

Yep, quite the burgeoning tech scene in Phoenix as well. Compared to California it's quite affordable if one can put up with four months of pretty extreme heat per year.

Houston, Austin, and San Antonio have quite a few jobs and decent cost of living, too.

Give SoCal a shot. You can get very competitive salaries when compared with NorCal right down here, and the cost of living is not quite as bad.

I'm hiring Ruby devs down in Costa Mesa, and I don't ask any algorithm questions :)

You should email me. It's in my profile. I have... questions. :)

This is something I'm struggling with right now. It seems like there are endless opportunities but are they really opportunities if you can't get past the "leetcode or GTFO" barrier? And even if you do get past it that only gets you in for a full day of being grilled on other arbitrary measures with zero feedback as to why you didn't get the offer. I feel like spending time trying to be able to solve these coding "challenges" only detracts from time I could be spending learning more useful ways to code or actually, you know, building applications.

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