Recently I had a lengthy phone interview with a hiring manager from a major telecommunications player. It was an excellent phone conversation on the technical aspects, on the work, and on the team. I was quite interested in the team and the work which pertained to penetration testing and ethical hacking.
That was until I learned how much they paid. For this highly skilled technical team the pay was insulting.
What has happened to IT salaries in Canada? Has the Temporary Foreign Slavery program enabled successful and profitable corporations to decrease IT salaries across Canada by staffing IT positions with falsely skilled labour (by falsely I mean labour that do not have the skills that they advertise usually brought into the country on the pretense that they could not find locally skilled individuals)?
The job we discussed would return me to a salary base I made 13 years ago.
What made this situation all the more absurd and insulting was the fact that the hiring manager spent 15 minutes of that interview waxing on about how successful that company is, how much money they were making on their various product lines. Then they close by offering garbage wages.
The final cherry on top was the statement of holiday where the number included statutory holidays.
Really? I mean REALLY?!
How do companies expect to attract, and more importantly, retain qualified skilled individuals especially security professionals?
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