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>I'd say £32k is beyond taking the piss for someone with a CS undergraduate degree and having to live in Cambridge Whilst it's not giant it's not super low eit
by gchadwick 10y ago
>I'd say £32k is beyond taking the piss for someone with a CS undergraduate degree and having to live in Cambridge
Whilst it's not giant it's not super low either. I'd be surprised if you could find that many tech (that is not banking/consultancy) companies in Cambridge (or indeed London) offering signficantly more than that. There's also things like Bonus, Share Scheme and pension (private health insurance too but that's a pretty common perk) that needs to be brought in the comparison.
- chrisseaton 10y agoDon't Facebook and Google offer more than that in London to new graduates with just undergraduate degrees? I know those are outliers then, but it's a shame that the outliers are all US companies. And ARM isn't just some tech agency, they're working on hardware, simulation, compilers, etc, hard tech stuff.
- gchadwick 10y agoI'm sure FB and Google offer more but they're not most tech companies! London is also more expensive than Cambridge (I doubt you'll buy a house a short distance from the office in London on a mid-level engineers salary at Google/Facebook, you can happily do that in Cambridge at ARM). I'd also note hard-tech stuff just seems to attract less money than web/social (see how the recent linked-in acquisition by MS wasn't for much less cash than the Softbank ARM deal). I'm not saying ARM is super generous with their compensation compare to other tech giants, but you get a pretty reasonable deal, and it's a nice place work with interesting things to work on. (I work at ARM)