Hot, literal desert in the climate change era with few local water supplies and powerful stakeholders with river water rights, mediocre politics in an unstable era, not really a tech hotspot outside TSMC/Intel. It's not awful but it's not folsom or hillsboro or seattle, it's kind of ohio-lite (with slightly less culture wars, but much worse water problems).
(oh and to be clear by "2 to 3 digits" I don't mean 10-999% bonus... I mean they gave senior engineers a $75-125 retention bonus and principals might get 2 or 3 hundred. Those are the people who will build Intel's next foundational architectures and the nodes and the packaging technologies that lead themselves and their foundry customers to success. Have fun with that.)
(oh and to be clear by "2 to 3 digits" I don't mean 10-999% bonus... I mean they gave senior engineers a $75-125 retention bonus and principals might get 2 or 3 hundred. Those are the people who will build Intel's next foundational architectures and the nodes and the packaging technologies that lead themselves and their foundry customers to success. Have fun with that.)