You know where they are headed instead? Canada.
There has been an huge influx of Indians from US coming to Canada. I've seen it first hand in the Toronto market.
We had shit salaries to begin with, and this isn't helping.
There has been an huge influx of Indians from US coming to Canada. I've seen it first hand in the Toronto market.
We had shit salaries to begin with, and this isn't helping.
They are being paid far above market value because they wouldn't agree to drop down to Canadian salaries.
Further, new hiring has shifted to Canada (we didn't hire devs in Canada at all) and there is a new office now because 5 devs is quite a few, as opposed to the single remote Canadian we used to have.
I suspect salaries are only gonna rise. At least the devs who moved from within our company are being paid well above local market value.
Even a Silicon Valley company with good funding recently that I applied to, with a job posting in San Francisco, eventually hired in Canada.
I seen tons of these questions on quora and other sites too
https://www.quora.com/As-a-Canadian-employer-why-do-you-thin...
so there is def something going on.
In practice, it's mostly a resume-filter thing -- working for a year in a cafe part-time was enough to get me to an interview for a software Pro Services gig
(I had the degree and experience for it, too, but that cleared the "work in Canada" hurdle)
The USA has an enormous amount of capital to invest and those companies want developers and will compete to get them, Europe, Canada etc. not so much.
I mean London has a cost of living comparable to many US Cities yet the wages are far lower.