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Detroit Is Trying Really Hard to Woo Young Workers

  • About 5,000 high-tech jobs go wanting at big automakers
  • Luring millennials with standing desks and flexible hours
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Detroit Automakers Target Silicon Valley Tech Talent

Detroit needs more people like Victoria Schein. Less than a year out of Smith College, the 23-year-old software engineer has filed for 14 patents and received nine as part of Ford Motor Co.’s driverless-vehicle research team.

A self-described “California girl” with a thing for cars, Schein, a former Ford summer intern in the company’s Silicon Valley research center, passed up a couple of enviable local offers to move to Dearborn, Michigan, and work for the automaker full-time.