Bay Area Technology Firms Put Down Roots in Seattle

Many engineers make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to work for hot Web companies. Increasingly, though, top tech workers in the Seattle area are seeing Bay Area Web companies come to them.

Over the past year, several of the best known Web companies from the Bay Area–Zynga Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. from San Francisco and Palo Alto’s Facebook Inc.–have opened satellite offices in Seattle in large part to tap the region’s pool of software engineering talent. The companies are following another Silicon Valley icon, Google Inc., which opened its first Seattle-area office in 2004 and now has one of its biggest U.S. engineering centers in the region, with more than 800 full-time employees, most of them engineers.

By NICK WINGFIELD

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