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It's worse in London. I seen a rant on Medium [1] about the lack of affordable talent in London and I could only think of some of the low ball offers I received
by hackerboos 11y ago
It's worse in London. I seen a rant on Medium [1] about the lack of affordable talent in London and I could only think of some of the low ball offers I received which would leave me worse off than staying in the North West.
I actually get paid more here in Toronto than I could hope to get in London.
My only option for the US is H1B but I'm willing to stick around for a while and I'll consider my options when I'm Canadian.
[1] - https://medium.com/@benjilanyado/an-open-letter-to-ed-vaizey-42285d55201c#.t6k1mcku3 https://medium.com/@benjilanyado/an-open-letter-to-ed-vaizey...
- linkregister 11y agoThanks for that link, it was a good laugh. The dissonance with reality was strong there. A single look at indeed.co.uk will reveal nary a single 600£ daily rate even for senior developers. Best of luck getting a pay increase; hopefully you don't have to deal with the horror of the H1B process to get paid what should be the global rate for software developers.
- jamiepenney 11y agoI love the veiled language in that article - "a new generation of proto-programmers emerge to correct the market" - you mean you hope a bunch of cheap new blood comes in because you wont pay market rates? Yeah, ok.
- lewisl9029 11y agoI realize we're a lot better off here in Canada than in many other places around the world, but it's still baffling how ridiculously uncompetitive our salaries can be when the barrier to entry into the US is almost non-existent.
- klipt 11y agoH1-B isn't exactly the only option. For example if you get a job with the Canadian branch of a multinational US company, after a year you can transfer to their US branch with an L1 visa.
- hackerboos 11y agoTrue. L1 is actually better than TN because it's dual-intent and better than H1B because there's no cap.