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my companys second biggest office is just north of heathrow. I assume its just like working just outside of ohare 
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Stymie posted:kudos to uk tech companies for working to rein in out of control programmer salaries boo them and boo you!!
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Sep 30, 2017 01:56
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Stymie posted:kudos to uk tech companies for working to rein in out of control programmer salaries 26k is pretty poo poo pay by UK standards too tbh for anyone with any experience at all.
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Sep 30, 2017 15:54
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[quote="“feedmegin”" post="“476915624”"] 26k is pretty poo poo pay by UK standards too tbh for anyone with any experience at all. [/quote]don't
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Sep 30, 2017 16:24
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St Evan Echoes posted:don't
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Sep 30, 2017 16:59
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feedmegin posted:26k is pretty poo poo pay by UK standards It's a complete insult, but also St Evan Echoes posted:don't
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Sep 30, 2017 17:55
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26k is better than many Welsh jobs  Best option appears to find a nice WFH position.
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Sep 30, 2017 18:32
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feedmegin posted:26k is pretty poo poo pay by UK standards too tbh for anyone with any experience at all. agreed, closer in line to what programmers should be paid across the board
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Sep 30, 2017 19:39
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Tatsujin posted:my companys second biggest office is just north of heathrow. I assume its just like working just outside of ohare uxbridge is a loving dump
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Sep 30, 2017 20:31
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I have a 2 hour and 15 minute phone interview scheduled for next week with Apple I don't think this is going to be fun
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Sep 30, 2017 20:56
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best of luck to you! what org?
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Sep 30, 2017 20:58
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it's for an internship with the Mass Storage EPM and Engineering team. I'm not sure what an EPM internship can accomplish over a short summer availability window, but that's one of my questions for them the first round, in-person interview I had a week or so ago went pretty well, I think
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Sep 30, 2017 21:06
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:it's for an internship with the Mass Storage EPM and Engineering team. I'm not sure what an EPM internship can accomplish over a short summer availability window, but that's one of my questions for them epms don't do anything so...
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Sep 30, 2017 21:27
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MrMoo posted:Banks tend not to like WFH and are overly bureaucratic for employees but pretty good for contractors making a mess of things in my experience the banks are not substantially different from other (non-technology) fortune 500 firms. once you get outside the google/facebook/amazon ball pits, nobody is real friendly to WFH or cowboy bullshit without change control. people want you to show up to the office and avoid fuckups. if there is a difference it is that the banks are more technologically competent than your average non-fang firm 
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Sep 30, 2017 21:47
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:once you get outside the google/facebook/amazon ball pits, nobody is real friendly to WFH or cowboy bullshit without change control. people want you to show up to the office and avoid fuckups. one of these things is not like the other
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Sep 30, 2017 22:17
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Half my conference calls I take on speaker phone sitting in a kayak in the middle of a lake, or sitting on a couch in a music store with a touring musician strumming away on a $3,000 guitar. This week I learnt IDC have a production tool called MADMAN that has zero error checking.
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Sep 30, 2017 22:26
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:it's for an internship with the Mass Storage EPM and Engineering team. I'm not sure what an EPM internship can accomplish over a short summer availability window, but that's one of my questions for them I'm sorry to have to tell you this but summer is over. if you're being called back you're already pretty good. they just have to clarify some stuff and figure out what to do with you.
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Sep 30, 2017 22:33
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The Management posted:I'm sorry to have to tell you this but summer is over.
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Sep 30, 2017 22:50
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yeah, we had a fall intern start in the last couple weeks
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Sep 30, 2017 22:58
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ShadowHawk posted:Interns can come at any season. It might even be slighty easier to get a non-summer internship because whether or not its summer doesn't make much difference to the people hosting you. Elysiume posted:yeah, we had a fall intern start in the last couple weeks I've been meeting with companies about internships next summer for the last few weeks. they start poaching from my campus early I'm not in the Bay Area so I'm only interested in stuff over the summer Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Sep 30, 2017 |
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Sep 30, 2017 23:02
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lol my company's hr doesn't post stuff for internships until January at the earliest and the number of interns is only finalized in February, interviews in March at the earliest
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Oct 1, 2017 00:58
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:they don't have to pay programmers better because they have a captive population. The only people who want to live in London are people who've never lived in London. When you get past all the bright lights and the Riverside pubs with views of parliament, you realise it is a loving shithole mate.
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Oct 1, 2017 01:23
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feedmegin posted:26k is pretty poo poo pay by UK standards too tbh for anyone with any experience at all. GCHQ offered me a job once as a new grad for £25k. Tbh the pay is okay when you consider the cost of living in Cheltenham/Gloucester, but like that's new graduate pay. And also gently caress working for the government.
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Oct 1, 2017 01:27
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It's funny, I took a year out of work to travel and drink shitloads of beer in foreign countries, and then I come to Canada and get a job that pays more than I was getting in London. The UK is so bad and I'd only ever move back if I was legitimately motivated to do so.
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[quote="“qhat”" post="“476929873”"] It’s funny, I took a year out of work to travel and drink shitloads of beer in foreign countries, and then I come to Canada and get a job that pays more than I was getting in London. The UK is so bad and I’d only ever move back if I was legitimately motivated to do so. [/quote] and the county's answer was to tank the currency further
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Oct 1, 2017 02:04
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qhat posted:The only people who want to live in London are people who've never lived in London. When you get past all the bright lights and the Riverside pubs with views of parliament, you realise it is a loving shithole mate. nevertheless that's where the jobs and the money are every kid who grows up in a shithole town is moving to london to compete with expats and poo poo. employers pay poo poo because that's all they're obligated to pay
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Oct 1, 2017 02:55
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i would never live in london on my current american salary, to say nothing of the peanuts that local employers wish to pay the housing prices are bananas even compared the bay area
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Oct 1, 2017 02:56
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i would never live in london on my current american salary, to say nothing of the peanuts that local employers wish to pay I've seen some developer and computer toucher comp rates in London, along with a few other forms of employment, and I have no idea how the hell the vast majority of the population does it. Family hand-me-downs, rent controls, and some local equivalent of Prop 13?
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Oct 1, 2017 04:04
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At a job fair: *Company Booth Guy with Enlightened Galaxy Brain*: "We do billions in revenue a year but we've still got that FAST-PACED BUT CASUAL STARTUP CULTURE." *Me, Small Brain while Gritting Teeth": "Thank you for the info, I'll keep your company in mind."
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Oct 1, 2017 04:07
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House prices aren't that bad in London if you get paid an American salary. Like seriously you can get a good 2 bedroom condo for 300-400. The trouble is nobody who wants to live in London gets paid an American salary.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:nevertheless that's where the jobs and the money are You can earn plenty and have a much much higher standard of living in most of the other big cities in the UK. I could move my job to the London office tomorrow and would be hilariously worse off on the London salary because of the cost of living. qhat posted:House prices aren't that bad in London if you get paid an American salary. Like seriously you can get a good 2 bedroom condo for 300-400. The trouble is nobody who wants to live in London gets paid an American salary. lol what
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Oct 1, 2017 11:54
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i work for a very large London based firm that shoved all their tech to northern ireland because £45k a year makes you p rich here as opposed to scraping by in the south east
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EnergizerFellow posted:I've seen some developer and computer toucher comp rates in London, along with a few other forms of employment, and I have no idea how the hell the vast majority of the population does it. Family hand-me-downs, rent controls, and some local equivalent of Prop 13? Either a) council housing ('the projects' to you) or b) a very, very long commute.
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jre posted:nope and nope. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E85302&minBedrooms=2&maxPrice=400000&sortType=1 FYI Woodford is one of the better places in London to live. Also ignore all the home wise poo poo, that's retirement properties and they list way underneath the market. qhat fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Oct 1, 2017 |
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Oct 1, 2017 19:15
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Basically I'm not sure where people got this idea that London is like the bay area because it's definitely not. London actually has space to build but is limited by a lack of govt willingness to spend.
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Oct 1, 2017 19:19
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qhat posted:http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E85302&minBedrooms=2&maxPrice=400000&sortType=1
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St Evan Echoes posted:loving old people Tories are running the country into the ground and old people continue to vote for them because it's means their savings continue to appreciate unsustainably.
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qhat posted:http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E85302&minBedrooms=2&maxPrice=400000&sortType=1 Wow "only" 400-500k for a 2 hour commute to work. Wow you're right people are totally overstating this 
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jre posted:Wow "only" 400-500k for a 2 hour commute to work. Wow you're right people are totally overstating this In the bay ppl pay 3mill for a 2 hour commute lol
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jre posted:Wow "only" 400-500k for a 2 hour commute to work. Wow you're right people are totally overstating this 2 hours? Lol. Woodford is like 30 minutes away from the city. Have you actually ever been to London?
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