Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
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Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
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Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#265.93% of Software Engineering graduates end up working in the US after graduation. Not a great statistic for Canada's tech industry.
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#3One main caveat "graduates from three of the country’s top universities – University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia and U of T – were working outside Canada."
There are many other schools in Canada offering STEM programs.
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#4This is not news.
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
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Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#665.93% of Software Engineering graduates end up working in the US after graduation. Not a great statistic for Canada's tech industry.
I'm in this situation, that is I'm graduating next year and I already have a job lined up in SV.
Personally, there just isn't anything for me here. I hate winter (depression for 7 months, anyone?). Everything is far. Entertainment is sparse unless it involves 1) hockey or 2) drinking, or both. Pay is shit. Prices are shit. Selection is shit (have you tried using Amazon CA?). Food, at least where I am, is good but no seafood.
Above else, thought, in SV I just feel like I belong. On the train here, an old man snapped at me for reading a maths text with some anti-intellectual line.
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#7This is not news.
This was the case when I graduated ~12 years ago, if anything the situation has got slightly better. When I graduated if I wanted to work in software my options were a bank or a consulting company. At least now you can get more stereotypical software jobs.
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#8The same is true of most of the rest of the world.
Smart computer scientists go to silicon valley unless they're tied down with commitments they can't move.
Doesn't bode well for the future of all other countries.
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#9Canadian working in SV for almost a decade here. Yeah sure, it was about the technology, job, but a lot of it has to do with lifestyle (which the article fails to mention, and can't really be measured).
Since I've been here, I've learned how to drive stick shift, sky dived, and been on way more adventure than what I could have if I stayed at home. It's about adventure and taking a risk. Not necessarily about the money, but being paid more doesn't hurt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
#10Compare and contrast: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-20/h-1b-work...
( Hacker News discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887739 )