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Once you take the exchange rate into account, I'm below the 2nd percentile for a senior dev. And I make a great salary for the Vancouver area. I knew I could d
by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Once you take the exchange rate into account, I'm below the 2nd percentile for a senior dev. And I make a great salary for the Vancouver area.
I knew I could double my salary south of the border, but that hurts.
- sdesol 9y agoI've heard it's very difficult to get H1B visa's now a days, so Canadians looking to move to the states, might not be able to.
- noirknight 9y agoCanadians have a TN visa option which is much simpler to get than H1B. There is no quota limit.
- sdesol 9y agoBut software programmers don't qualify for TN visa. System analyst is the closes I think.
- borski 9y agoThey do under either Engineer or Computer Systems Analyst, depending on the case.
- nawgszy 9y agoThey do if they have a Software (or otherwise) Engineering degree, and getting in as a CSA just means you need to have 'microservices' and 'managerial' duties in your role
- JabavuAdams 9y agoWrong. You just need to phrase it the right way. The government bureaucracy considers programmers as typists, and systems analysts as programmers.
- sdesol 9y agoAnd if the border guard doesn't like the wording, they'll reject you at the border.
- sjg007 9y agoI don’t know.. Vancouver is a great place to live!