• Question: Where in the world is the best place to work as an engineer?

    Asked by anisa to Matthew, Neil, Paula, Pete, Philippa on 12 Mar 2015.
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      Matthew Gall answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Great question anisa!

      I’ve worked all around the globe, from London to San Francisco! And as a Software Engineer, Silicon Valley in San Francisco, California is easily the hub of the technology industry 🙂

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      Pete Symons answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Hi anisa,

      Somewhere nice and warm! I think anywhere were there is a lot of industry and focus on the particular type of engineering. For example if you wanted to be a engineer focussed on mining Australia is a pretty good place to go, like Matt says Silicon Valley for IT, F1 engineer is probably near Silverstone where all the teams HQs are etc.

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      Neil Taylor answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      Hi anisa!

      Very interesting question!

      In terms of the engineering side, I think Matthew and Pete have summed this up well – it depends on the industry! For the oil and gas industry, some of the more popular places to live include:

      – Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
      – Aberdeen (UK)
      – Houston, Texas (USA)
      – Perth (Australia)
      – Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
      – Calgary (Canada)

      But I think you also have to ask some other questions around weather/culture/leisure and how long you wished to stay there to really figure out which place was the best for you.

      Hope this helped!

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      Philippa Jefferis answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      Absolutely, dependent on what type of engineering you would like to do. However, I am really keen to go out to Australia, and they are very keen for engineers out there.

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