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As a Canadian on a hiring committee, it's fascinating to talk to Americans who hate the political environment but still don't want to relocate.

by boothby 4mo ago

inglor_cz 4mo ago
$$$$$ > €€€ or ££ With a few exceptions like Switzerland, American levels of compensation for highly qualified people just can't be matched anywhere in the Western world. Saudi Arabia or UAE maybe, but these don't even try to pretend to be socially and politically liberal.
- mschuster91 4mo ago
  > With a few exceptions like Switzerland, American levels of compensation for highly qualified people just can't be matched anywhere in the Western world. Gross compensation yes. But if you begin deducting stuff like the absurd American housing costs, private healthcare, saving up for deductibles, the need to own, insure, fuel and maintain a car to do everything because almost nothing is accessible by public transport, retirement savings, everyday stuff such as restaurants being made much more expensive than what's on the paper because of mandatory tipping, saving up for your children's academic degree while paying off your own student debt, hell saving up for having a child (just the birth will be 20k out of pocket [1]), saving up for times of un(der)employment... suddenly most of Europe becomes pretty affordable if you are not on FAANG levels of compensation. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby-in-america-6745508 https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a...
  - Redoubts 4mo ago
    I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k, so this all just reads like cope.
    - mschuster91 4mo ago
      > I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k Yes, for FAANG during Covid and now AI. But your average SWE? That's more like 130k in the US [1] vs 61k in Germany [2]. In Germany, that's about 3500€ net (after taxes, retirement and health insurance - that is deducted from gross wages here) per month, of which you spend about 1500-1800 on cost of living (in Munich, the most expensive city in Germany by far), so about 1700-2000 in disposable income. You don't need a car because everything is walkable and a flatrate for all public transit across Germany is about 63€ a month. Let's do the math for the US, California. Net pay is 87k/y or 7250/mo [3]. Of that, subtract ~600$ for a PPO plan (it's still not as good as Germany's default which does not have anything comparable to "in network", but good enough) and ~200$ for an average 2400$/y deductible. A 10% contribution to a 401k, 725$ a month. 2500$ for a 1-br apartment [4]. Now add in 100$ a month for car insurance (VW Golf) and 399$ in leasing rates for that VW Golf, then you're at 2.700$ a month in disposable income. But since you still have to pay half a grand a month on your average student loan [5], whoops, 2.200€ a month in disposable income left. And frankly, making 200-500$ a month more in disposable income? That is not that much of a difference, particularly once you begin factoring in the "soft factors". Here in Germany, you can't be fired at-will, you'll always have to be paid for at least three months, that's one huge uncertainty off my back. You don't have to fear your kid getting shot (12 children a day die in the US from gun violence), you don't have to fear surprise bills when dealing with medical emergencies, you don't have to fear ICE picking you up and deporting you, you don't have to save up for the privilege of your child attending university because that's free in Germany. If you're lucky and/or well-connected enough to land a job at FAANG/AI? By all means, go for the US. But for everyone else? Come here to Europe. Life's better here. Especially if you or your children are LGBT - or, given the recent anti-abortion crusade that bans lifesaving healthcare in many states, if you carry an uterus. [1] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries [2] https://www.kununu.com/de/gehalt/softwareentwickler-in-15019 https://www.kununu.com/de/gehalt/softwareentwickler-in-15019 [3] https://www.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=130000&from=year&region=California https://www.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=130000&from=yea... [4] https://sfist.com/2026/05/28/average-rent-for-san-francisco-one-bedroom-apartment-hits-4-000/ https://sfist.com/2026/05/28/average-rent-for-san-francisco-... [5] https://admissions.usf.edu/blog/how-much-college-debt-is-too-much https://admissions.usf.edu/blog/how-much-college-debt-is-too... [6] https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-facts/ https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-fact...
  - inglor_cz 4mo ago
    Still, until Trump started his latest round of madness, we had a huge brain drain from the EU to US and not vice versa. Were they all stupid? They weren't. Our highly taxed and relatively stagnant economies are more affordable & attractive for poorer people, but the well-paid professional class was simply better off in the US. Especially with some optimizations, such as: get your professional degree for free in Germany, then move to the US for its high salaries without a debt to pay.
    - mschuster91 4mo ago
      > until Trump started his latest round of madness, we had a huge brain drain from the EU to US and not vice versa. Well, now with Trump and his madness, suddenly Europe or Canada become a lot more attractive. It simply is not worth it any more to stay in the US, and if the Democrats don't make a landslide in the midterms... get the fuck out as long as you still can.
  - lII1lIlI11ll 4mo ago
    Can you provide some calculations of being able to afford anything at all for a, say, software developer earning 80k per-year in Paris, Berlin or Amsterdam and compare that to 280k in the Valley? Some of those are completely terrible (SWEs I know who work in Paris can't even afford to rent in the city itself and there is no realistic way for them to ever buy anything in there), others are okayish but definitely not great. And most of those supposed benefits you listed are payed by outrageous taxes on so-called "middle" class, which (surprise!) are exactly those SWEs (others you just disingenuously omitted like retirement contributions which would be close to 20% of your salary in Munich while simultaneously highlighting 401k).
    - mschuster91 4mo ago
      > Can you provide some calculations of being able to afford anything at all for a, say, software developer earning 80k per-year in Paris, Berlin or Amsterdam and compare that to 280k in the Valley? I did just that in a sibling comment. 80k is upper class in Germany, solid middle class can be achieved at 60k. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340349
      - lII1lIlI11ll 4mo ago
        Does achieving "solid middle class" in Munich on 60k somehow involve inheriting an apartment from your late grandma?
        mschuster91 4mo ago
        It does not. Source: did that until last year when we had to move for the new job of my wife. Rented a 60 m² apartment.
        lII1lIlI11ll 4mo ago
        So you conveniently omitted that your wife was also contributing? Is being "solid middle class" in Germany assumes to ever be able to buy your own apartment (preferably not a a 60m^2 shoe-box)?
  - yieldcrv 4mo ago
    I've done that math too and the other reality is that most of those costs are optional in the US. It is 100% possible for me to have a high salary in the US and save most of it while temporarily exposing myself to larger risks. And it is far more useful for me to be able to say and show that I have a high salary, for access to credit and resources, private investments that give me the best shot of escaping a permanent underclass. Of course, I don't want to budget, nobody wants to given the choice, so I pay for the conveniences and assurances that I can afford. But even if the margins are smaller, the absolute numbers are great. If you aren't living paycheck to paycheck due to debt and lifestyle inflation, then you are really saving thousands of dollars a month. potentially many thousands. a single one of those is enough to travel around the world, it's just the irony that we have to come back to the US very soon in order to continue making that money. its enough to attempt to make a homerun in our capital markets on a equity name. So, sorry commonwealth and Europe, you really don't compete on that front for people that don't already have capital. The wages are just too low. In fact, the wages are ironically sooooo low that their main selling point - social welfare - is at parity to Americans on welfare! Who do have healthcare without premiums in some states, subsidized higher education in some cities, and more. So the systems aren't really as different as billed. Saying it another way, a European/Commonwealth citizen making their same salary in USD would get the same benefits in some parts of US, just losing all of their social standing in the process. And finally, when Americans do earn their freedom back, with unlimited sums of money, Europe and Commonwealth countries once again become uncompelling, because the US has a more expensive, larger, funner version of everything those countries have to offer, while our US Gentry experience a different form of social welfare supporting themselves. The incentives to really exit the US system aren't quite there. As another person mentioned, Switzerland is closest. Switzerland and schengen access is pretty appealing to me as well.
    - jjav 4mo ago
      > I've done that math too and the other reality is that most of those costs are optional in the US. If you're very young, single and childless, sort of. You can pick the lowest tier of health coverage from your employer which is often fully covered by the employer and have no other major costs. If you're young and single and healthy this can work out. Of course, if you have some kind of accident or medical emergency, expect to be bankrupted, which is not how it works in other countries. But once you have to cover childcare and school and university, and the lack of time off for parents (add expensive babysitters on top of daycare and school) and pay for good medical coverage for a whole family and of course contribute maximums towards retirement because social security won't be there and so on. Suddenly that large gross salary is mostly gone and what little is left over isn't very different from what may be left over from a much smaller salary in a different country. And of course here in the US we get to work our nice 60 to 80 hour weeks instead of a regular 40 hours and disconnect from work. And we might two weeks vacation, if you can afford to take it, instead of 4 to 6 weeks.
  - fakedang 4mo ago
    Middle class in Europe means unable to buy a family apartment in a Tier 1 city.
    - quickthrowman 4mo ago
      My net worth is close to 1M in the US and I can’t afford a $3000/month mortgage payment (median $450k house with 10% down). Well I could afford it but I need to max out my 401k so I don’t starve when I retire, and stocks don’t need maintenance, insurance, and property tax payments.
    - pjmlp 4mo ago
      Not everyone of us wants to live in tier 1 cities, and not all countries have apartment buying culture.
  - hawaiianbrah 4mo ago
    Most people giving birth have insurance, and $20k would not be their out of pocket cost.
- jltsiren 4mo ago
  Academic salaries are lower in the US relative to industry salaries than in most other countries. While the nominal sums are high, the salaries are low relative to housing costs. Particularly because good universities tend to be in expensive areas. When you compare two academics in similar positions in the US and Europe, the European is more likely a homeowner.
  - asdff 4mo ago
    Yeah, but you can pull some coin in R01 grants here in a way that you simply cannot in other countries. Shared facilities is another factor. Schools will throw down for a new cryo EM. Might be fully funded by a couple donors along with an entire building around it for the cost of putting up a brass sign with their name by the door. Other nations might be still using soviet equipment.
    - jltsiren 4mo ago
      NIH grants are pretty good, but they have not kept up with inflation. ERC grants are better, unless you are in a country with particularly high salaries. NSF grants are not that special. Europe spends more on academic research than the US, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of GDP. (The US spends more on R&D in general.) European academics are also less dependent on government funding. While European old money has long found it prestigious to fund arts and sciences, US donors are more likely to fund education or buildings. European academics have continued to immigrate to the US, mostly because there is less competition for resources. It's easier to get a faculty position or a grant in the US, because you are competing against fewer people. Because academic jobs are worse in the US relative to the alternatives, fewer Americans are willing to pursue an academic career. That leaves opportunities for immigrants who have already chosen the academia and are willing relocate.
throwaway902984 4mo ago
Canada has a fairly tough points system around their immigration doesn't it? Lone, high income developers are what it seems the system is made to attract, but a whole family?
- kashunstva 4mo ago
  My wife is an academic surgical subspecialist and had no difficulties with immigration from the U.S. to Canada. At the time I was taking a pause in my career to homeschool our daughter. This was over a decade ago. The points system fluctuates dynamically according to the needs of the labour market, so things may be different now. But I was even issued an open work permit at the time. And different labour categories may have different situations.
  - throwaway902984 4mo ago
    Thanks for commenting with your experience - that helps frame it somewhat, that a skilled worker may qualify their family. The proof of funds requirement seems like the term used, referred to here [1]. Still a lot of money but less than I was directly told recently, so it is possible word of mouth may have exaggerated this a tad. If you don't my asking, was your wife's profession, rather than her income directly, taken into account significantly? Thanks again [1] https://prepareforcanada.com/blog/managing-money/financial-first-steps/how-much-money-will-i-need-to-move-to-canada https://prepareforcanada.com/blog/managing-money/financial-f...
wileydragonfly 4mo ago
I visited the UBC cyclotron. Instead of fixing or replacing the $250,009 chair, they were flying your citizens to UCSF for treatment. Pathetic.
fanatic2pope 4mo ago
What are you hiring for?
- boothby 4mo ago
  Personally, my team is looking for circuit designers and EDA tooling developers (though it looks like the roles have been taken down for some rewording). But the bulk of our tech positions are physicists and software developers. https://ats.rippling.com/en-CA/d-wave-quantum/jobs?page=0 https://ats.rippling.com/en-CA/d-wave-quantum/jobs?page=0
fzzzy 4mo ago
It would help if Canadian salaries weren’t an utter joke, along with the cost of living.
pdar4123 4mo ago
The funding environment in Canada is quite simply abysmal. You don’t need a politician to kill your grant, the money doesn’t exist in the first place. Canada could do so incredibly well if it only would invest in science.

As a Canadian on a hiring committee, it's fascinating to talk to Americans who hate the political environment but still don't want to relocate.

by boothby 4mo ago

As a Canadian on a hiring committee, it's fascinating to talk to Americans who hate the political environment but still don't want to relocate.

inglor_cz 4mo ago

$$$$$ > €€€ or ££ With a few exceptions like Switzerland, American levels of compensation for highly qualified people just can't be matched anywhere in the Western world. Saudi Arabia or UAE maybe, but these don't even try to pretend to be socially and politically liberal.

mschuster91 4mo ago
> With a few exceptions like Switzerland, American levels of compensation for highly qualified people just can't be matched anywhere in the Western world. Gross compensation yes. But if you begin deducting stuff like the absurd American housing costs, private healthcare, saving up for deductibles, the need to own, insure, fuel and maintain a car to do everything because almost nothing is accessible by public transport, retirement savings, everyday stuff such as restaurants being made much more expensive than what's on the paper because of mandatory tipping, saving up for your children's academic degree while paying off your own student debt, hell saving up for having a child (just the birth will be 20k out of pocket [1]), saving up for times of un(der)employment... suddenly most of Europe becomes pretty affordable if you are not on FAANG levels of compensation. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby-in-america-6745508 https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a...
- Redoubts 4mo ago
  I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k, so this all just reads like cope.
  - mschuster91 4mo ago
    > I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k Yes, for FAANG during Covid and now AI. But your average SWE? That's more like 130k in the US [1] vs 61k in Germany [2]. In Germany, that's about 3500€ net (after taxes, retirement and health insurance - that is deducted from gross wages here) per month, of which you spend about 1500-1800 on cost of living (in Munich, the most expensive city in Germany by far), so about 1700-2000 in disposable income. You don't need a car because everything is walkable and a flatrate for all public transit across Germany is about 63€ a month. Let's do the math for the US, California. Net pay is 87k/y or 7250/mo [3]. Of that, subtract ~600$ for a PPO plan (it's still not as good as Germany's default which does not have anything comparable to "in network", but good enough) and ~200$ for an average 2400$/y deductible. A 10% contribution to a 401k, 725$ a month. 2500$ for a 1-br apartment [4]. Now add in 100$ a month for car insurance (VW Golf) and 399$ in leasing rates for that VW Golf, then you're at 2.700$ a month in disposable income. But since you still have to pay half a grand a month on your average student loan [5], whoops, 2.200€ a month in disposable income left. And frankly, making 200-500$ a month more in disposable income? That is not that much of a difference, particularly once you begin factoring in the "soft factors". Here in Germany, you can't be fired at-will, you'll always have to be paid for at least three months, that's one huge uncertainty off my back. You don't have to fear your kid getting shot (12 children a day die in the US from gun violence), you don't have to fear surprise bills when dealing with medical emergencies, you don't have to fear ICE picking you up and deporting you, you don't have to save up for the privilege of your child attending university because that's free in Germany. If you're lucky and/or well-connected enough to land a job at FAANG/AI? By all means, go for the US. But for everyone else? Come here to Europe. Life's better here. Especially if you or your children are LGBT - or, given the recent anti-abortion crusade that bans lifesaving healthcare in many states, if you carry an uterus. [1] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries [2] https://www.kununu.com/de/gehalt/softwareentwickler-in-15019 https://www.kununu.com/de/gehalt/softwareentwickler-in-15019 [3] https://www.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=130000&from=year&region=California https://www.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=130000&from=yea... [4] https://sfist.com/2026/05/28/average-rent-for-san-francisco-one-bedroom-apartment-hits-4-000/ https://sfist.com/2026/05/28/average-rent-for-san-francisco-... [5] https://admissions.usf.edu/blog/how-much-college-debt-is-too-much https://admissions.usf.edu/blog/how-much-college-debt-is-too... [6] https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-facts/ https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-fact...
- inglor_cz 4mo ago
  Still, until Trump started his latest round of madness, we had a huge brain drain from the EU to US and not vice versa. Were they all stupid? They weren't. Our highly taxed and relatively stagnant economies are more affordable & attractive for poorer people, but the well-paid professional class was simply better off in the US. Especially with some optimizations, such as: get your professional degree for free in Germany, then move to the US for its high salaries without a debt to pay.
  - mschuster91 4mo ago
    > until Trump started his latest round of madness, we had a huge brain drain from the EU to US and not vice versa. Well, now with Trump and his madness, suddenly Europe or Canada become a lot more attractive. It simply is not worth it any more to stay in the US, and if the Democrats don't make a landslide in the midterms... get the fuck out as long as you still can.
- lII1lIlI11ll 4mo ago
  Can you provide some calculations of being able to afford anything at all for a, say, software developer earning 80k per-year in Paris, Berlin or Amsterdam and compare that to 280k in the Valley? Some of those are completely terrible (SWEs I know who work in Paris can't even afford to rent in the city itself and there is no realistic way for them to ever buy anything in there), others are okayish but definitely not great. And most of those supposed benefits you listed are payed by outrageous taxes on so-called "middle" class, which (surprise!) are exactly those SWEs (others you just disingenuously omitted like retirement contributions which would be close to 20% of your salary in Munich while simultaneously highlighting 401k).
  - mschuster91 4mo ago
    > Can you provide some calculations of being able to afford anything at all for a, say, software developer earning 80k per-year in Paris, Berlin or Amsterdam and compare that to 280k in the Valley? I did just that in a sibling comment. 80k is upper class in Germany, solid middle class can be achieved at 60k. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340349
    - lII1lIlI11ll 4mo ago
      Does achieving "solid middle class" in Munich on 60k somehow involve inheriting an apartment from your late grandma?
      - mschuster91 4mo ago
        It does not. Source: did that until last year when we had to move for the new job of my wife. Rented a 60 m² apartment.
        lII1lIlI11ll 4mo ago
        So you conveniently omitted that your wife was also contributing? Is being "solid middle class" in Germany assumes to ever be able to buy your own apartment (preferably not a a 60m^2 shoe-box)?
- yieldcrv 4mo ago
  I've done that math too and the other reality is that most of those costs are optional in the US. It is 100% possible for me to have a high salary in the US and save most of it while temporarily exposing myself to larger risks. And it is far more useful for me to be able to say and show that I have a high salary, for access to credit and resources, private investments that give me the best shot of escaping a permanent underclass. Of course, I don't want to budget, nobody wants to given the choice, so I pay for the conveniences and assurances that I can afford. But even if the margins are smaller, the absolute numbers are great. If you aren't living paycheck to paycheck due to debt and lifestyle inflation, then you are really saving thousands of dollars a month. potentially many thousands. a single one of those is enough to travel around the world, it's just the irony that we have to come back to the US very soon in order to continue making that money. its enough to attempt to make a homerun in our capital markets on a equity name. So, sorry commonwealth and Europe, you really don't compete on that front for people that don't already have capital. The wages are just too low. In fact, the wages are ironically sooooo low that their main selling point - social welfare - is at parity to Americans on welfare! Who do have healthcare without premiums in some states, subsidized higher education in some cities, and more. So the systems aren't really as different as billed. Saying it another way, a European/Commonwealth citizen making their same salary in USD would get the same benefits in some parts of US, just losing all of their social standing in the process. And finally, when Americans do earn their freedom back, with unlimited sums of money, Europe and Commonwealth countries once again become uncompelling, because the US has a more expensive, larger, funner version of everything those countries have to offer, while our US Gentry experience a different form of social welfare supporting themselves. The incentives to really exit the US system aren't quite there. As another person mentioned, Switzerland is closest. Switzerland and schengen access is pretty appealing to me as well.
  - jjav 4mo ago
    > I've done that math too and the other reality is that most of those costs are optional in the US. If you're very young, single and childless, sort of. You can pick the lowest tier of health coverage from your employer which is often fully covered by the employer and have no other major costs. If you're young and single and healthy this can work out. Of course, if you have some kind of accident or medical emergency, expect to be bankrupted, which is not how it works in other countries. But once you have to cover childcare and school and university, and the lack of time off for parents (add expensive babysitters on top of daycare and school) and pay for good medical coverage for a whole family and of course contribute maximums towards retirement because social security won't be there and so on. Suddenly that large gross salary is mostly gone and what little is left over isn't very different from what may be left over from a much smaller salary in a different country. And of course here in the US we get to work our nice 60 to 80 hour weeks instead of a regular 40 hours and disconnect from work. And we might two weeks vacation, if you can afford to take it, instead of 4 to 6 weeks.
- fakedang 4mo ago
  Middle class in Europe means unable to buy a family apartment in a Tier 1 city.
  - quickthrowman 4mo ago
    My net worth is close to 1M in the US and I can’t afford a $3000/month mortgage payment (median $450k house with 10% down). Well I could afford it but I need to max out my 401k so I don’t starve when I retire, and stocks don’t need maintenance, insurance, and property tax payments.
  - pjmlp 4mo ago
    Not everyone of us wants to live in tier 1 cities, and not all countries have apartment buying culture.
- hawaiianbrah 4mo ago
  Most people giving birth have insurance, and $20k would not be their out of pocket cost.
jltsiren 4mo ago
Academic salaries are lower in the US relative to industry salaries than in most other countries. While the nominal sums are high, the salaries are low relative to housing costs. Particularly because good universities tend to be in expensive areas. When you compare two academics in similar positions in the US and Europe, the European is more likely a homeowner.
- asdff 4mo ago
  Yeah, but you can pull some coin in R01 grants here in a way that you simply cannot in other countries. Shared facilities is another factor. Schools will throw down for a new cryo EM. Might be fully funded by a couple donors along with an entire building around it for the cost of putting up a brass sign with their name by the door. Other nations might be still using soviet equipment.
  - jltsiren 4mo ago
    NIH grants are pretty good, but they have not kept up with inflation. ERC grants are better, unless you are in a country with particularly high salaries. NSF grants are not that special. Europe spends more on academic research than the US, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of GDP. (The US spends more on R&D in general.) European academics are also less dependent on government funding. While European old money has long found it prestigious to fund arts and sciences, US donors are more likely to fund education or buildings. European academics have continued to immigrate to the US, mostly because there is less competition for resources. It's easier to get a faculty position or a grant in the US, because you are competing against fewer people. Because academic jobs are worse in the US relative to the alternatives, fewer Americans are willing to pursue an academic career. That leaves opportunities for immigrants who have already chosen the academia and are willing relocate.

throwaway902984 4mo ago

Canada has a fairly tough points system around their immigration doesn't it? Lone, high income developers are what it seems the system is made to attract, but a whole family?

kashunstva 4mo ago
My wife is an academic surgical subspecialist and had no difficulties with immigration from the U.S. to Canada. At the time I was taking a pause in my career to homeschool our daughter. This was over a decade ago. The points system fluctuates dynamically according to the needs of the labour market, so things may be different now. But I was even issued an open work permit at the time. And different labour categories may have different situations.
- throwaway902984 4mo ago
  Thanks for commenting with your experience - that helps frame it somewhat, that a skilled worker may qualify their family. The proof of funds requirement seems like the term used, referred to here [1]. Still a lot of money but less than I was directly told recently, so it is possible word of mouth may have exaggerated this a tad. If you don't my asking, was your wife's profession, rather than her income directly, taken into account significantly? Thanks again [1] https://prepareforcanada.com/blog/managing-money/financial-first-steps/how-much-money-will-i-need-to-move-to-canada https://prepareforcanada.com/blog/managing-money/financial-f...

wileydragonfly 4mo ago

I visited the UBC cyclotron. Instead of fixing or replacing the $250,009 chair, they were flying your citizens to UCSF for treatment. Pathetic.

fanatic2pope 4mo ago

What are you hiring for?

boothby 4mo ago
Personally, my team is looking for circuit designers and EDA tooling developers (though it looks like the roles have been taken down for some rewording). But the bulk of our tech positions are physicists and software developers. https://ats.rippling.com/en-CA/d-wave-quantum/jobs?page=0 https://ats.rippling.com/en-CA/d-wave-quantum/jobs?page=0

fzzzy 4mo ago

It would help if Canadian salaries weren’t an utter joke, along with the cost of living.

pdar4123 4mo ago

The funding environment in Canada is quite simply abysmal. You don’t need a politician to kill your grant, the money doesn’t exist in the first place. Canada could do so incredibly well if it only would invest in science.