>>I know some very talented people (Ph.D.s from Berkeley in CS) in Silicon Valley or San Francisco who are "parked on the beach" to use a term from Marc Andreessen. Basically, in the Valley, as soon as people can stop coding financially, they often do. This seems to be because the money/power people who run the companies are so nasty to work for. I personally do not work at Google or Mozilla because of this. As a friend of mine said when he quit Google "yeah, it looks a lot shinier from the outside".

Apologize, I am new to this Please explain