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I'm surprised at the lack of answers that suggest a positive opinion about working in Canada. I personally love the health care and other social benefits, the w
by mitjak 8y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of answers that suggest a positive opinion about working in Canada. I personally love the health care and other social benefits, the winters, the multi-cultural city (Toronto), the people, and the lack of gun ownership, among many other things. SV strikes me as a monoculture. I don't want to live at my workplace. The opportunities are fewer but there's also higher demand. My workplace has been struggling to find senior talent with very competitive salaries and perks.
- ryanobjc 8y agoI eye roll at the "SV is a monoculture" as if somehow you could summarize 5 million people in a highly multicultural and dynamic region as a monoculture, but Toronto is so awesome. If you are finding your experience in the bay area is a monoculture, then it's only your own fault.
- staticautomatic 8y agoIf you think Silicon Valley (and increasingly, parts of San Francisco) is not a monoculture, it's because you're a card-carrying member of the monocoluture and you don't know it.
- smokinn 8y agoIs the very competitive salary over 300k USD? That's what's competitive in the Bay Area or Seattle for senior talent. While there are benefits to Canada as you mentioned, for a lot of people they don't make up a 50% pay cut.
- vonmoltke 8y ago> Is the very competitive salary over 300k USD? How many jobs are actually paying that? The salaries posted on the "Who Is Hiring?" threads don't corroborate that, nor does my experience in NYC (which is supposed to be on par with those areas).
- systemBuilder 8y agoGoogle has at least 1000 employees in the Bay area in the $300k+ income bracket. The entry-level job at Google pays like a staff engineer at a mortal company.
- vonmoltke 8y agoSo, 1000 out of a few hundred thousand employed as software engineers in the area?
- lhorie 8y agoNeither do sites like Glassdoor and Paysa. Maybe if you count signing bonuses + equity bonuses. But those aren't salary per se. With that said, 200k wouldn't be that unreasonable as an expectaction at a senior level or above at a household name tech company.
- soperj 8y agoCompetitive to what? Toronto salaries or SV salaries?
- mitjak 8y agoFrom the posts on here, both
- Bajeezus 8y agoTech workers in Silicon Valley generally have very good health care. Winters in the Toronto area are horrible (I grew up in Western NY and would never dream of returning) and the climate in California is much more hospitable. San Francisco is a very diverse city if you stray outside the tech bubble. California isn't very gun friendly either, and gun control isn't exactly an issue that has a huge impact on where most people decide to live, either. I've loved every visit to Canada that I've ever made, but when you factor in the weather and lower pay, I would never live there.
- bgirard 8y agoAs an expat Canadian working for a large tech company the health care here is light years ahead -when- you have excellent heath insurance.