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For the Phoenix government payroll system, they paid IBM like it was the 2090s and it’s still broken.

I think there are more fundamental issues - especially in healthcare infrastructure.

having to deal with legacy systems and interoparabality is a significantly bigger issue than developer pay as evidenced by the very well working digital infrastructure in much poorer countries that just leapfrogged the old stuff.

But in poorer countries, those companies probably pay relatively well. Sure they make less than Canadian developers at big banks, but they relatively make more so they would be better in many cases.

they pay relatively well in Canada too, and for arguments sake, the US which has probably the best paid devs across the board has a financial infrastructure from hell when it comes to payments or money transfers.

It's just tech debt. If you've ever been to China, it's crazy how well WeChat works. There's just nothing like it in the EU or the US because we have 20 different decades old things for everything that people can't or won't replace.

Banks pay well in Canada? Which ones? TD and CIBC both gave me crap offers.