<story><title>Canada’s new tech talent strategy</title><url>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackpelican</author><text>I have tried to get into Canada as a FAANG engineer through internal transfer from within the company. The pay was hilarious compared to what I would have gotten in the US, but I had personal reasons to choose Canada instead.&lt;p&gt;It has been a total shitshow. I started the process in June of 2022, eventually the team I was moving to got bored of waiting for the work permit in March 2023.&lt;p&gt;Factoring out the (ridiculous) 3 months it took for the relocation agency to prepare and submit my work permit application, it was six months of waiting with no feedback at all from the IRCC about where the process is stuck. All inquiries went unanswered.&lt;p&gt;Once I lost the position, I emailed the local Canadian embassy to let them know my thoughts, I was (expectedly) greeted back with an automated email saying that emails about immigration will not be looked at.&lt;p&gt;All in all, the processes in Canada are very immature and if you value predictability and stability in your life, do not attempt to get a job there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>&amp;gt; was six months of waiting with no feedback at all from the IRCC about where the process is stuck.&lt;p&gt;Since most governments went WFH, application processes for everything have, in my experience, gone to insane lengths. I don’t think the government union culture and WFH mixed well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canada’s new tech talent strategy</title><url>https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackpelican</author><text>I have tried to get into Canada as a FAANG engineer through internal transfer from within the company. The pay was hilarious compared to what I would have gotten in the US, but I had personal reasons to choose Canada instead.&lt;p&gt;It has been a total shitshow. I started the process in June of 2022, eventually the team I was moving to got bored of waiting for the work permit in March 2023.&lt;p&gt;Factoring out the (ridiculous) 3 months it took for the relocation agency to prepare and submit my work permit application, it was six months of waiting with no feedback at all from the IRCC about where the process is stuck. All inquiries went unanswered.&lt;p&gt;Once I lost the position, I emailed the local Canadian embassy to let them know my thoughts, I was (expectedly) greeted back with an automated email saying that emails about immigration will not be looked at.&lt;p&gt;All in all, the processes in Canada are very immature and if you value predictability and stability in your life, do not attempt to get a job there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juujian</author><text>The Canadian immigration policy is not what&amp;#x27;s on paper, really it&amp;#x27;s determined by funding. IRCC is understaffed and recently went on strike over pay and stuff. The funding level is giving the Canadian government a way to eat their cake and have it, too. Write a liberal immigration policy on paper, limit immigration by not having staff to process all the paperwork.</text></comment>