04-01-2019, 04:21 PM
(03-28-2019, 10:40 PM)tvot Wrote: Another thing from the CivicTech meetup the other night is that someone mentioned that there are often over 2000 software/coding positions open in the region, but people there in hiring positions mention not finding any good candidates in their applicants.
The "2000 open technical positions in Waterloo Region" is a long-referenced number. The oldest I found a few minutes after Googling when seeing again in the linked article from Communitech was a quote from Iain Klugman (of Communitech) in a 2007 issue of Exchange Magazine[1]. I wish they would source that number. I worked there for over four years and never saw an actual source for it. It seems very unlikely to me that the demand for tech people hasn't changed in over a decade and if it has, what does that say about our tech community's actual growth?
[1] http://www.exchangemagazine.com/html/new...s35-48.pdf (pdf, pp40)