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[tomh009]

Migration to the US has always been significant. I read about engineer migration to the US 100 years ago in a book.

I used to be Director of SE at Waterloo and the numbers are consistent with my surveys. I obviously did not survey non-SE students, so I can't say anything about that. I think that one confounder here is that the SE number might be dominated by Waterloo, while the CS and CE numbers less so. I wouldn't be surprised if the Waterloo CE and CS numbers were higher than the quoted number.

SE and CE at Waterloo are 90% domestic students. I don't have the number for CS.

I think CS (and Math in general) is significantly lower than that.

For sure, the US tech giants will tend to cherry-pick the top software engineering (smaller program) and computer science (larger one) students and entice them with packages that most Canadian companies are unable to match.

Anecdotally, I had two opportunities to take US jobs, ~30 and ~15 years ago, at very nice compensation packages (though much less than people get today). In retrospect, I have no regrets at all about deciding to stay in Canada. Everybody has their own priorities and makes their own choices, though.