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I'm chasing up opportunities in London
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2025 06:56 |
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Boiled Water posted:
ive been telling recruiters i want 80k, some of them dont sniff, others have told me its unlikely with only my 2 years of experience ![]() honestly i would rather just get a higher paying job in glasgow, but im probably already working for the best company i can be, so it would need to be a move to somewhere else with the view of going back to current job eventually
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Emacs Headroom posted:it's a test, clearly that doesnt sound like a Euro amount
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also how could you give a percentage answer to that question lol
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qhat posted:No loving chance you're getting £80k in London unless you're a technical lead. 2 years should expect no more than 45k imho. you can get that in scotland with 2 yhears experience, in places that are much cheaper to live in than London,
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i got like a 19% payrise last week, and 16% bonus, but still feel pretty underpaid i wonder what H1B options are available these days, might be interesting to go work in the us for a year or two while ive got no hard ties here yet always seemed like amazon was the best way to go for foreigners wanting to work in usa tech
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Captain Foo posted:well the government is currently literally nonfunctional and won't be for the foreseeable future, so lol eh, it would take months to sort something like a move to the us anyway, including interviewing
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Emacs Headroom posted:amazon has a comp structure designed almost entirely to lock you in -- big bonus and of first year, no stock until your cliff at year 2 yeah, i would already be locked in. I have heard some horror stories on amazon but I am not sure how willing (in comparison) other places are to sponsor visas
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hello netflix plase hire me i am very famiiar with your products thanks
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also i found a bug on your job listing website within 5 minutes ![]()
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youre right, i better make sure not to mention it to them, like originally planned ![]()
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eschaton posted:there are plenty of US companies that have a significant development presence in Canada, not least because it can be easier (or more desirable) for some of the people they want to hire to get a Canadian visa than a US one i have some family that are canadian but unfortunately too far removed to actually be useful in getting a canadian passport (already looked into that), but immigrating to canada wouldnt be out of the question at all. i love the cold and the poutine lol but yeah, not out of the question ughh australia, no thanks though
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Emacs Headroom posted:even acknowledging the existence of the careeer website is probably a red flag this is much easier for local moves, theres an abundance of london recruiters on linked in, unfrotunately i dont get the mail merge from US based ones
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I'm reading the 'cracking the coding interview" book just now, very slowly
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The grind goes on
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im getting to interview someone this week, hoping to learn interview technique from the inside
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jobs
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My technical direction is cold hard cash from the highest bidder
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im gearing up for interviews
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also gently caress linkedin recruiters
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qhat posted:When I got my degree ten years ago in the UK tuition was only £3k/year, even if you went to Oxbridge. So if you did 4 years you leave uni with a total of £28k ish in debt (also factoring in maintenance loans) with 0.9% interest. Now I hear it's roughly £70k at 6.1% interest lol. Sucks to be a centennial. But paying off that kind of loan aggressively is single handedly the best investment decision you can ever make. interest on student loans is still like 1% in scotland, thanks to free tuition i thnink ive only got like 3k in debt left, should be done this year
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im happy at current job, but still think im underpaid for all the stuff i do and how well i do it (compared to others around me) i already know from experience than i am better than a lot of people ive worked with that have 3/4/5 times the experience i do main problem is convincing other people of this in an interview scenario
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also one recruiter telling me "you cant ask for that much, the people interviewing you probably arent making that much" lol and the amount of "you need to move to london, anywhere else is just a dead end" lol
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we have had people accept offers with us, their start date comes, they dont show up, no call/email/text whatever its a pain in the rear end but whjatever. time to find someone else to fill the position
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpNAPsqsxFE all aboard the fat stacks train
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Rex-Goliath posted:his takeaway at the end of this is actually surprisingly clairvoyant yeah, i was thinking this sounds great, then he hits out with "there is no retirement here. Im going to have to work until i die to pay for healthcare for me and my family"
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i read my google prescribed news each morning on the bus it knows what i want
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i might be interviewing at a startup soon what kind of stuff should i be asking thats specific to startups
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the only reason im pursuing it is becaue they seem ughh more open to higher than normal salary for my area id be going at them for a 40% increase over what im on just now just in base salary their most recent round of funding (fifth) was 2 years ago and was for several hundred million an ipo is something ill be asking them about
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yeah, i dont really care about equity and that poo poo, i just want a big base salary and it seems like they have money to throw around my bank dont care about equity and stock options when they are giving me a mortgage
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i dont think ive ever applied to anywhere that asked for a cover letter
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rip, my team is getting moved dto another org my only reason for working here (being part of the larger tgeam here) is gone
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I'm doing a tech test for a company here, it's very simple, about an hour of work. Assuming all goes well I'm planning on asking for a base salary bump to the equivalent of 40% higher than I'm on just now, although I won't be telling them a percentage. Should I ask for 50% instead? Is this too high, too low? I can't double my salary here unless I moved to London, then it would be possible. Or if I done contract work here or London
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gonadic io posted:This is exactly why you shouldn't give a number. If you ask for 50 and they can only do 40 they'll tell you and you'll get 40. Thankfully I haven't told the company any numbers yet, but when the recruiter hit me up (random recruiter, not internal to the company) I did give him some rough figure about what I was looking for. Hopefully this should be ok, if I actually get an offer from the company then i will let them pitch at me first
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gonadic io posted:Sorry this breaks down a bit through external recruiters. They will 100% lowball you to the company and even if you refuse to give them a number they'll make up a low one for you. gently caress external recruiters. Hoowfully it works out, I told the external recruiter a pretty high number and he said "they should have the budget for that", for comparison i have told the same number to many other rando external recruiters and they tell me to politely gently caress off
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HoboMan posted:sanity check you kind of said why a web app is better than a desktop app what they are getting at (i think) is why a single page application (your server probably only has 1 url route defined to index html, this loads your single page app, the rest of the routing is handled by your javascript app on the front end and page transitions are just ajax calls and front end changes, its not *really* changing to a new page, no additional server side rendering) is better than a traditional web app (like something awful, where every new page is being rendered and delivered by the server instead)
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im interviewing at 2 places just now done a tech test for 1 place, waiting to hear back from it have a tech test to do for the other place, a hackerrank exercise im hoping i can get with at least 1 of them, as they are the most attractive places to work here
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I went to place today and was told my salary expexations were too high Rip, the place seems really nice as well
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i passed the coding tests for both companies, next stage is phone interviews god bless i really want to get out of current job
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2025 06:56 |
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java is the most common language used in my work it also means it has the most lovely people working with it
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