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Canada saw an intake of over 30,000 foreign tech workers within the last year, according to a new report from the Technology Councils of North America and Canada's Tech Network.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The top five [hiring companies] includes financial institutions such as TD, RBC, and Scotiabank, along with Amazon and Bell.

It would be interesting to know what roles the banks are filling with these newcomers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might be surprised how inefficient banks can be when it comes to tech. As years go by I see an increase of tech workers but a decrease of experienced or competent ones. My view is those competent tech workers tend to be more expensive than Canadian companies are willing to pay, thus end up hiring 10x the staff. The banks simply have more money to waste that way and thus are doing so by hiring a lot of tech workers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article doesn't provide enough context to say.

There is also the possibility that they're being swallowed into the great fintech pachinko machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

... second only to the HR pachinko machine in terms of size and complexity?

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