I'm learning a lot here. I didn't know about Sun's layoffs and I didn't know LG was here in SD.
My second guess would be L3, which I think is also having problems. You'd be surprised who is here in SD if you really look. Google is in Irvine. Yahoo is in Carlesbad and Rancho Bernardo (well at least for now 🙂 ) Microsoft has a presence, IBM has a presence, so does NetApp and I believe EMC. Huawei has a presence, and my neighbor who is CEO of a large chinese telco is probably going to open an office here or irvine soon. San Diego has decent diverse tech, just not a lot of the same thing. Sun's presence here has been small relative to sun, mainly hardware support. They've been cutting back every year. The site here is virtually no-existence. The main reason why the office is probably still here is because several companies out here still uses a lot of equipment from them.
FLU, "can't find talent here" sounds like fancy talk for "can't afford to pay more than peanuts". What kind of talent is she looking for?
I think it's just general embedded software development. VwWorks/Linux embedded for wireless telco systems. I'll find out more details. I was surprised they are going overseas to recruit. I don't buy the "no talent" here argument myself. It sucks to be good but unemployed, meanwhile while companies are recruiting overseas.
If you know people that's interested in QC, I'll forward some resumes to her and her group. Just have your colleague's send email to my yahoo account: [email protected]… Sorry about the email handle though. One of these days, I'll grow up and change it when I reach puberty.
I would have thought the sinking dollar would have made it more cost-effective to keep employment here. Oh well. I guess we work in the only industry that doesn't keep pace with inflation. Have you folks thought about that? Take a P.C. for example. You work in a tech field which a PC costs less than 10 years ago, despite how much the dollar has devalued…Hmmmmmmm.
