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Maybe part of the problem is that a lot of our tech talent ends up going down to where the money is instead of staying in Canada?
by SohKai 14y ago
Maybe part of the problem is that a lot of our tech talent ends up going down to where the money is instead of staying in Canada?
- jarek 14y agoMore accurately, the 'problem' is that it seems there is no overarching wish to have a Canadian internet consumer software sector. People are just fine going to do that in California, and there haven't been waves coming back. Nothing wrong with that, maybe Canadians as a whole are content doing other types of technology work. You don't hear a lot about mechanical engineers going to work in the U.S.
- dezwald 14y agoIt would be interesting to see how many students from Waterloo and UofT alone, leave Canada to go work in the tech industry in the US.
- SohKai 14y agoI bring it up because it appears to be quite a lot from my experience as a student at Waterloo. The prevailing thought is that you haven't "made it" unless you go down south when you look for tech jobs. Most of the people in my year have gone down when they can for co-op.