Yes, using personalized anthropomorphic terms is silly.
Except that behind the Great Toronto tech market there are real people, making decisions. At the government, at the investment, and at the management level.
And by and large those people have made decisions which see engineering talent here as a resource that they have to push the cost down on even if it means losing domestic talent to the US.
Part of this is accomplished by importing talent from abroad or exporting the work abroad, or underpaying when they can get away with it. It's not a surprise that locally developed talent leaves after graduation, when the industry is actively recruiting from abroad.
And part of this is relying on the percentage of talent hat simply will not or cannot consider moving abroad (people like myself).
Except that behind the Great Toronto tech market there are real people, making decisions. At the government, at the investment, and at the management level.
And by and large those people have made decisions which see engineering talent here as a resource that they have to push the cost down on even if it means losing domestic talent to the US.
Part of this is accomplished by importing talent from abroad or exporting the work abroad, or underpaying when they can get away with it. It's not a surprise that locally developed talent leaves after graduation, when the industry is actively recruiting from abroad.
And part of this is relying on the percentage of talent hat simply will not or cannot consider moving abroad (people like myself).