[phillmv]

I wish they weren't failing. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Waterloo grads suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly looking for a job, somewhat cooling down the Canadian developer job market.

[potatolicious]

Given the number of US software companies trampling over each other to hire Waterloo grads, I'm not overly concerned. I'd be more concerned for every other Canadian CS program where the interest-level from American employers is more or less non-existent (the American market being, well, incredibly healthy for now).

I've now been at multiple US companies where they pull out the stops to recruit at Waterloo, while not giving a wayward glance towards other Canadian schools. I still haven't figured out why - even as an egotistical Waterloo grad I have trouble seeing what we had that other schools don't.

[edwinnathaniel]

Engineers gone through a round of lay-off already. This time is all non-engineers.

[sliverstorm]

Classic. "Who should we fire first? Oh, I know! The people who develop the only products we sell, that's who!"

[runako]

Obviously sarcasm, but in reality this is not crazy. For RIM's problem is they don't know what to build, not that they are incapable of shipping something. Burning cash having engineers build the wrong thing is not obviously any more correct.

[dmix]

Do we even know its engineers getting laid off?

[jskopek]

It seems like its primarily HR, Marketing, and Law getting cut. The blossoming startup scene in Waterloo and Toronto should be eager to try out any engineers that are given the boot; it's still very much a sellers market up here.