Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo...
by dontwearitout on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:36AM
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It's very bad for tech in particular. This is a bit dated, but ~84% of Waterloo grads jump ship to the US (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25911922). Put another way, it's a roll of the dice chance that a graduate stays in Canada.
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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo...
by bentlegen on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:51AM
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That linked report says that 84% of Software Engineering Waterloo grads, from the class 2020, intended or desired to move to the US (it's unclear if they actually did -- the poll was completed June 2020).[1]
A very important detail here is that Software Engineering is a specific specialization under the Engineering faculty. This figure does not include Computer Science graduates, for example, as that is a separate and much larger department.
So, this is a poll of 87 students (out of ~107) of a very specific graduating class. To put this in perspective, the Computer Science department at Waterloo is 4,000 undergraduate students.[2]
I'm not refuting that Canadian graduates often look to the US for better employment opportunities (full disclosure: I did that), but I think we owe ourselves to look at this topic objectively.
[1] https://uw-se-2020-class-profile.github.io/profile.pdf [2] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/quick-facts