Title: I recently moved to Vancouver, Canada after working for 3 years in the SF Bay Area and it has been a little bit of a shock. The companies I&#x27;ve seen here are not doing terribly exciting things and don&#x27;t pay very well.<p>The biggest difference is they are much less willing to take a chance on people with only 3-4 years experience like me. On paper I don&#x27;t have a whole lot of experience, but I&#x27;ve been obsessed with technology since I was very young and HAVE learnt a lot. In the right jobs, given responsibility, I have done more than people my &quot;level&quot; would typically do in a more conservative place. But I didn&#x27;t realize just how special that is to SF - it seems like companies in Canada still treat software engineers as interchangeable cogs with &quot;X years of experience&#x2F;knows Y technology, does not know Z&quot; stamped on their forehead.<p>I&#x27;m willing to move anywhere within Canada. Can anyone recommend companies and locations with a more optimistic&#x2F;SF-ish culture willing to take a chance on passion &amp; talent? Or even how to find places like that?
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