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How do we solve a problem like Canada’s creaking bureaucratic systems?(theglobeandmail.com)
5 points by gabbo 3y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by non-Indian green cards exactly, but just to clarify, the waiting time for EB2/EB3 green cards for those in India is really dramatically behind everywhere else (final action dates are a rough proxy for "wa
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84% of Waterloo Software Engineering undergrads move to the US upon graduation(twitter.com)
88 points by gabbo 6y ago|90 comments
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by gabbo 6y ago
From this list: Chinook Therapeutics Element AI Repare Therapeutics Enerkem DalCor Pharmaceuticals Verafin Fusion Pharmaceuticals Stormfiser Biogas Hootsuite North Element AI was acquired by ServiceNow, North was ac
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by gabbo 6y ago
Beyond the QIIP, there are a whole host of provincial nominee programs where provinces can set their own criteria that are different from the federal government: https://moving2canada.com/provincial-nominee-program-pnp/
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by gabbo 6y ago
Yes. Absolutely. It so much more than makes up for lost government benefits. Health insurance working for a decent US tech company generally requires some out of pocket, but the amounts are really quite modest. Premiums are typically mostly
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by gabbo 6y ago
Quite frankly the "all your money will go to healthcare" meme doesn't really apply to the kind of person who's leaving Canada for a much high-paying US tech job. A person like that will in all likelihood be working for a
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by gabbo 6y ago
This may be true in parts of Europe, but it's not so clear cut in Canada. We have a decent tech job market in our 3 major cities (Montreal/Vancouver/Toronto), but it's mostly bad elsewhere. There are a few lower-tier Can
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by gabbo 6y ago
Not exactly. There are fewer linguistic, cultural, and immigration barriers when comparing Canada/US vs. Europe/US.
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by gabbo 6y ago
This is Canadian culture in a nutshell, especially politically: it's better to aim small or not to try at all than it is to really go for it and fail.
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by gabbo 6y ago
If you've been following Toronto politics for long, you'll realize this move from Tory is just another in his (and Toronto's) long history of poorly-delivered half-measures which come well after other major cities have alread
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Lyft threatens lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, accusing support of short selling(cnbc.com)
73 points by gabbo 7y ago|33 comments
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by gabbo 8y ago
How is the compensation?
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by gabbo 8y ago
I'd love to hear what sort of job a UK new grad would get at Google that would pay them more than their US equivalent. Every data point I've ever seen has shown Google UK employees are paid a lot less.
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by gabbo 8y ago
I know a lot of Google US employees who work 40 hour weeks (plenty who work more but usually by choice), their sick days don’t come out of their vacation allowance at all, and after 4 years of working there they get 5 weeks of vacation per
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Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as young tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by gabbo 8y ago|0 comments
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BlackBerry maker, NTP ink $612M settlement (2006)(money.cnn.com)
1 points by gabbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 9y ago
The Canadian tech industry doesn't give you the same opportunity and quality of life as the American tech industry can, unfortunately. COL in Toronto is high, pay is middling, transit is limited, and the jobs are comparatively anemic.
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Trustworthy Networking(stratechery.com)
3 points by gabbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 9y ago
And not just S&P, also FTSE Russell: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/index-pla... This is a big deal (in a good way, IMO). Companies have a very real disincentive to go public with a sh
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S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate(cnbc.com)
3 points by gabbo 9y ago|1 comments
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by gabbo 9y ago
You make much more than $130k-$160k as an engineer at Amazon, Google, and Facebook in San Francisco or Seattle. H1B salary data is salary only, but stock and cash bonus are significant on top of that. At senior level, $240k-$300k for a dev
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by gabbo 9y ago
My sense is the more ambitious Canadian engineers and/or those with high earnings potential will be drastically better off in the US (financially speaking) because the upper end of compensation and access to job opportunity is so much
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by gabbo 9y ago
Still very limited job opportunities compared to US tech hubs, but the cost of living is indeed not out of control. The biggest problem there is you have to be OK living in a place like Waterloo, which is great if you like suburbs and want
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by gabbo 9y ago
Your point is 100% correct, but IMO that link understates Seattle earnings potential. Probably doesn't include equity/cash bonus, which will happen a lot in Seattle and not so much in Vancouver. Big tech company jobs in Seattle ar
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by gabbo 9y ago
Toronto housing has to come back to reality at some point. Rent and ride it out if you can, consider Montreal if you can find a good job and are OK with French, otherwise if you can stomach being away from home you're much better off f
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by gabbo 10y ago
One can hope :). TBH, absent Amazon Toronto paying unexpectedly well and having great work (or a Toronto real estate collapse), it sounds almost like going to work for Google in Waterloo and somehow making that work sounds like the least ba
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by gabbo 10y ago
May I ask where you chose to go instead? I don't see much which is exciting in Toronto (bad money, uninteresting tech).
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by gabbo 10y ago
I'm not sure the average Google software engineer according to Glassdoor is representative enough of Google software engineers who would be buying housing that it's valid basis to make assertions about housing affordability. It&#x
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by gabbo 10y ago
> One interesting thing I noticed is that some housing markets don't really go down that much, they just stop growing. I can remember the home my parents owned in Toronto. They sold it for $325K in 1990. In 2005 I looked up the pric

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