interviewing: The Land of the Rising Fig

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Naar: Aug 19, 2003; The Time of the Eye is now; Fun Shoe

VileLL posted:

quick sanity check:

my company's currently trying to recruit someone with a masters/ preferably phd in computer science + prior experience developing software to create/ incorporate machine learning features in a project/ write and publish research around this.

�25,000 annually is an absurdly lowball figure for this, right?

My starting salary ten years ago post-PhD was higher than that, they have zero chance of getting any non-idiot

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Naar: Aug 19, 2003; The Time of the Eye is now; Fun Shoe

Here (Manchester) it tends to be £40k - £90k for most roles, senior roles being around £70k. For things dahn Sarf I've had salaries up to £130k quoted to me.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 08:27

Naar: Aug 19, 2003; The Time of the Eye is now; Fun Shoe

Personally I would be wary about working for a bank because of the high amount of bureaucratic nonsense (source: currently working for $LARGE_BANK in London and it often feels like I'm in a Kafka novel). At least the money's good and I can work remotely. As a quant you may be shielded from the worst if it, though.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2022 08:38

Naar: Aug 19, 2003; The Time of the Eye is now; Fun Shoe

Captain Foo posted:

hi naar

sup dude

# ¿ Aug 5, 2022 20:55

Naar: Aug 19, 2003; The Time of the Eye is now; Fun Shoe

occluded posted:

hey fig thread

i finished a bootcamp thing in feb (full stack webdev, a pretty comprehensive one with good reviews for what that's worth) and I'm doing the interview tango for the first time in ever, seeing as i've been a freelance film industry guy up until now. Just got rejected from what would have been an amazing job (small software company, interesting projects, local to me in Cornwall, UK) so I'm feeling kind of lovely as now everything else is either 1) in London, gently caress commuting for 4+ hours a few days a week or 2) remote, so I'm competing with every other dev in the country.

I don't think I expect words of encouragement from yospos but perhaps you could all tell me that i'm hosed, but maybe not quite as hosed as I worry?

It's not going to be super easy for you, I don't think Cornwall is precisely a tech hub. Have you considered moving somewhere else that isn't London? I live in Manchester and the job market isn't bad.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 20:44

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