The company chose Canada because of its ‘deep talent pool’ and ‘vibrant tech ecosystem,’ said Rachel Curran, Meta’s public policy manager
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitious vision to create an immersive digital realm will be aided by a slew of Canadian hires and a new engineering hub in the country.announced Tuesday that it will add more than 2,500 office and remote workers to its Canadian contingent over the next five years and situate many of them in a Toronto engineering hub.
“Ontario, Toronto in particular, is becoming a real centre of the innovation economy and the tech economy and so we’re jumping on board,” she said. Many will be housed in a new downtown Toronto space larger than Meta’s current home in the MaRS Discovery District, Curran said. She declined to share further details on the forthcoming office.
“You can stay in your community, you can stay close to your family, and still do one of these highly paid, highly skilled jobs of the future, which is a really neat evolution.”During the COVID-19 pandemic, they watched foreign giants Microsoft, DoorDash, Amazon, Google, Wayfair, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and Netflix reveal Canadian hiring plans. Many intended to place workers in technical or engineering roles and some even said they would bolster hiring with new offices.
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