We hire devs in Toronto and area. I barely finished high school but have a lot of marketable experience, but that is by far the exception. Lots of local talent,

We hire devs in Toronto and area. I barely finished high school but have a lot of marketable experience, but that is by far the exception. Lots of local talent, from U of T and Waterloo in particular. We are the most educated city in the most educated country in the world and in my experience, recruiters and HR people won't even talk further if you don't have an undergrad. Finance (and any other more corporate culture like services, audit, consulting) even more so. The start-ups and hard tech companies less so, but there seems to be enough qualified people to fill these needs at the time being. Mostly 6-12 month contracts although we do 4 sometimes. We mostly hire new grads though, for some reason.