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2018-04-08 11:50 88019762 Anonymous US engineer work abroad question (pepequestion.jpg 250x191 6kB)
Hi /int, are there opportunities for an American software engineer to work in your country? I have 3 years experience doing full-stack development: API development primarily with Scala and Python, front-end with Angular, streaming with Kafka, dbs like Postgres and Mongo, and a smattering of AWS tools.

5 min later 88020010 Anonymous
>>88019762 Yeah you'll be fine. If you have a degree you don't need to get a visa to work in Canada, same as with us in the states.

6 min later 88020086 Anonymous
>>88020010 Thanks for the heads up. I actually don't have an engineering degree. I do have a liberal arts bachelors and a couple CS classes but am mostly "self taught".

7 min later 88020107 Anonymous
>>88019762 >Postgres Lmao

8 min later 88020143 Anonymous
>>88020086 Then I think you need 5 years of work experience to work in Canada without a visa. It's a bit harder with software unless you have an engineering degree, because NAFTA doesn't cover "software" just "engineering" and the border guards often interpret that as not including software. Hopefully the renegotiated NAFTA will cover it.

10 min later 88020240 Anonymous
>>88020107 >Postgres >Lmao Why?

16 min later 88020534 Anonymous
>>88020240 It's a meme

18 min later 88020650 Anonymous
>>88020534 Ok, any real reasons? It was perfectly workable for the needs of the team I worked on, which was storing configuration information for data science models.

1 hours later 88023612 Anonymous
>>88019762 Yeah, you could easily get a job (I get at least 1 job offer per weeek), but the wages are literally shit.

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