On: Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers

[smm2000]

Not really. If you go after top people from good universities (Waterloo, UBC), it's still 80-85k in Vancouver. Less than in Silicon Valley but not by much.

[seanmcdirmid → smm2000]

Why would you mention UWa and UBC and not...U Toronto, which is actually internationally ranked in computer science?

[jpalawaga → seanmcdirmid]

There are a whole array of credible Universities in Canada when it comes to cpsc, I don't think he was being selective, just what came to mind.

Those are the first ones that come to mind for me

[edwinnathaniel → seanmcdirmid]

Not to diminish UT reputation but both UWa and UBC ranked the highest among Canadian universities when it comes to the annual ACM competitions.

[seanmcdirmid → edwinnathaniel]

You mean ACM programming competitions. I believe Shanghai Jiaotong university often comes out #1 in those competitions, and no one is claiming that they are at the top of the computer science program rankings.

[edwinnathaniel → smm2000]

I highly doubt that. Even BBY during their glory days are willing to pay 64k for fresh grad with co-ops experience.

Microsoft paid 80k for ugrad back in 2008 in Redmond.

I would love to know which companies in the Vancouver that are willing to pay that much for mostly raw talent.

PS: I dealt with mostly UBC co-op and I know UBC CS curriculum rather well and 85k is too much.