The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

I was making a more general statement about work visas/migrant worker policies. Not that I think we should limit workers, but the standard of "I can't hire anyone to do the job" means little when the "without raising wages" remains implicit.

Yes, at times that's an issue.

But I'll note that we have also been hiring software developers almost continuously for the past five years. We really don't get a lot of applicants, and that's way before there is any discussion about salaries. But we have found some great team members among new Canadians (permanent resident, but recently arrived).

While Google or Shopify etc may be perceived as more exciting and attract more applicants, overall I don't think the software developer job market here is saturated. We do still need more people, whoever they may be.

We're a bit off the pandemic topic now though.