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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by shados on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:44PM (#14542564)
Yup, exactly. I mean, I can see it happening frequently the way the person who replied to me said it. If you're in a hot area in Canada that pays decently (I think Toronto is probably not bad, I never worked there), you probably can hit 100k? Then if you move in a tech hub and you're not all that, 135-140k is possible. Then your multiplier isn't that high.

But if you were making 70-80k in Canada then hit the US and do 200k + RSUs + bonus, you're in a much different world...and it can just keep going up and up and up and up, while up north you will hit a wall much sooner.

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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by potatolicious on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:51AM (#14542911)
Especially because there is an entire category of dev jobs that simply don't exist in Canada: the $300-500k senior dev roles at institutional BigCos like Google, FB, MS, Apple, etc.
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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by ska on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:32AM (#14543018)
And if you are making 150k + RSUs + bonus in Canada do you really think you'll get a 3-4x larger offer in the US?

Again, I'm not denying that vastly more of these opportunities exist in the US, particularly in a few locations. But that doesn't factor into the majority of tech jobs on either side of the border.

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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by shados on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @07:35PM (#14549597)
It doesn't. And the average joe isn't going to move either.

However, the Waterloo software engineering graduate who's making 150k+RSU+bonus is probably nailing a Principal engineer position at a famous american tech company in SF/SV/NYC/Boston and is absolutely going to nail big bucks. Thats some superstar material right there. The only places I've seen that approached those numbers in Canada were Canadian offices of Wall street banks. And having worked for those companies in the past, superstar engineers at Morgan/Goldman in NYC made me look poor.

And i'm far from poor.

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