Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by ido on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:44PM (#16998144)

You can replace "Canadian" with almost every other country on earth and the question stays the same.

I live in Germany, which has similar wages for software engineers as Canada. And in a 2 hours train ride I can be in Poland, where software engineers earn 1/3 their German counterparts.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by netheril96 on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:13PM (#16999946)

I guess that Germany and Poland do have problems similar to Canada, except that their brains are harder to be drained by America due to the distance.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by EduardoBautista on Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:48PM (#17002824)

Also Canadians have a much easier visa to get.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by burfog on Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:09AM (#17000265)

This isn't due to any failure in Poland. It takes money to make a person choose Germany over Poland. Poland is really really nice.

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