I spent my life in Ottawa, including the first 10 years of my professional life there, before getting out. I'm sure everyone has a different perspective, but as

I spent my life in Ottawa, including the first 10 years of my professional life there, before getting out. I'm sure everyone has a different perspective, but as a coder, the problem is clearly talent. Overwhelmingly, programmers are below average. Management are textbook gantt charts and timesheets. It's pretty much the problem that you see throughout the industry, except it's every single company. If shopify is an exception, it's a recent one. Ottawa is particularly bad because it's a government town. 9-5 is a rule. Lot's of consulting companies. Lot's of certified managers. There's a huge sense of entitlement. The city is geographically large with bad transportation, so you have long commutes (Toronto's no different).