alt Hacker NewsIt's a weird change though. Canada is one of the most investor-friendly and startup-friendly jurisdictions I can think of. If you want to grow quickly, you need to be thinking about how to get an office set up in places like Calgary (lots of machine-learning talent there), Toronto, and Vancouver, and when you do so you'll find the government incentives and lower wages lead to you spending about half on total compensation versus a typical American startup hub.
I worked at a place that expanded into Calgary and picked up a bunch of ML engineers with oil-and-gas backgrounds (who were eager for something outside the energy sector) and the government picked up half of the payroll tab for several years. There is also, of course, no health insurance benefits to worry about.
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> Canada is one of the most investor-friendly and startup-friendly jurisdictions I can think of.
Other comments in this thread make it sound like an absolute nightmare. So which is it?
> There is also, of course, no health insurance benefits to worry about.
Uhh, we don't have universal coverage for everything health up here, we still have private benefits that our employers pay for as part of our compensation plans.
Life insurance, dental, vision, prescriptions, physio, mental health, critical illness etc..
It might be less than in the US, but it's not "no health insurance benefits to worry about".
There are definitely still health insurance benefits (I'm Canadian). Yes, our doctor and hospital visits are covered, but many things are covered by employer paid insurance (or not at all):
- prescription medicine
- dental
- vision
- mental health
- things like physiotherapy