This dataset includes people like my intern, who left to go join USDS after his internship was up, etc
So there is some amount of flat out silliness here.
It also covers 14 years (2002->2016), and has a fairly small number of people for that number of years.
A significant number are DC people, and, surprisingly, if you want to stay in DC, you are going to work at the government most likely.
During the earlier parts of this timeframe, there was no one other than Google who was local (google opened the office in 2006).
During the middle part, 2006-2013, other tech companies were just staffing up policy orgs.
Over the entire time period, the government is by far the biggest employer in the region.
There were not a lot of even tech companies (let alone local policy orgs for tech companies) in most of that time period, the biggest other one would have been weird things like "livingsocial".
Having been recruiting in DC during the 2006-2012 timeframe , out of the 1000+ resumes i'd reviewed, i'd say 80+% were working at the government.
Like, why is this a conspiracy instead of normal attrition?
In particular: where was it you expected them to go that was more acceptable?
I think you are seriously overestimating the amount of non-governmental jobs they would have been able go to if they wanted to stay local.
It's a little more true now, but even then you'd just see them bounce between tech company policy departments.
Over the same time period, i'm 100% sure as many policy/legal/etc people in MTV/etc went to go work at Facebook, startups, etc (IE whatever the local industry was).
I'm also sure you'd find the same relative number of facebookers/etc in DC (which again, was very small during that time period) left for the administration, etc.
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This dataset includes people like my intern, who left to go join USDS after his internship was up, etc
So there is some amount of flat out silliness here.
It also covers 14 years (2002->2016), and has a fairly small number of people for that number of years.
A significant number are DC people, and, surprisingly, if you want to stay in DC, you are going to work at the government most likely.
During the earlier parts of this timeframe, there was no one other than Google who was local (google opened the office in 2006). During the middle part, 2006-2013, other tech companies were just staffing up policy orgs. Over the entire time period, the government is by far the biggest employer in the region. There were not a lot of even tech companies (let alone local policy orgs for tech companies) in most of that time period, the biggest other one would have been weird things like "livingsocial".
Having been recruiting in DC during the 2006-2012 timeframe , out of the 1000+ resumes i'd reviewed, i'd say 80+% were working at the government.
Like, why is this a conspiracy instead of normal attrition? In particular: where was it you expected them to go that was more acceptable? I think you are seriously overestimating the amount of non-governmental jobs they would have been able go to if they wanted to stay local.
It's a little more true now, but even then you'd just see them bounce between tech company policy departments.
Over the same time period, i'm 100% sure as many policy/legal/etc people in MTV/etc went to go work at Facebook, startups, etc (IE whatever the local industry was).
I'm also sure you'd find the same relative number of facebookers/etc in DC (which again, was very small during that time period) left for the administration, etc.