[GTALUG] Co-op Issues

[Don Tai]

The average Chinese dev will make about $10k CAD.

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 08:45, Gary via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> Here's an interesting article from the U.S. census bureau, which likely
> applies to Canada as well:
>
> "The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that 74 percent of those who have
> a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering and math —
> commonly referred to as STEM — are not employed in STEM occupations."
>
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-130.html
>
> This is not surprising because according to payscale.com the average
> Indian programmer makes just $8,300 cdn for the entire year.  IBM now
> has more employees in India than it does in America.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html
>
> Industry is making a concerted effort to perpetuate the skills shortage
> myth so that they can beguile politicians and persuade them to open the
> floodgates of immigration. This has the effect of saturating the market
> and lowering wages.
>
> And they have succeeded:
>
> https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Computer_Programmer/Salary/5f88d602/Toronto-ON
> Note that a letter carrier makes more money.
>
> /gary
>
>
> On 19-02-22 07:03 PM, nick via talk wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > I don't know if someone would be willing to give some advice on finding
> Co-op.
> > For the last two semesters including semester I've been looking and
> found very
> > little for my skills. Don't know what's up as literally getting in
> contact with
> > folks at AMD got me contacts. Maybe someone has experience with the
> CO-OP program
> > either hiring or otherwise.
> >
> > If someone wants a resume that's fine I would prefer to send it directly
> rather
> > than to a public list through,
> >
> > Nic
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