I wish we had we had the high salaries of places like NY and SF to go along with the high cost real estate. Even Hootsuite's salaries are half of what you could earn in SF AND in Canadian dollars instead of USD.And it could be argued that the high salaries of internet startups that don't actually produce value are contributing to the problem. If Hootsuite had to pay its employees what it can earn from its services, rather than what it can gain from ridiculous overvalued IPOs, outfits like Hootsuite might not be driving $2000/mo 1br condos in the downtown core.
Yeah, we had many conversations at the company I interned at last year about what their goal was. We're convinced that they have some sort of secret project they're working on, because no one we talked to at Hootsuite could tell us why they were hiring so many people.