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£400 a week, in York? Hell yes. £800 once you’re done training for someone who couldn’t program before they started is not just good, it’s fantastic for anywher
by barry-cotter 8y ago
£400 a week, in York? Hell yes. £800 once you’re done training for someone who couldn’t program before they started is not just good, it’s fantastic for anywhere in the U.K. outside London for a junior.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThanks! I don't know anything about York, and am honestly not even sure what the £:$ conversion is at the moment. (Being paid to learn a skill from scratch does sound pretty objectively good, though.)
- emodendroket 8y agoIt's about two pounds to the dollar last I checked, but PPP is probably of more interest if you're considering working there.
- PNT510 8y agoI think the conversion is somewhere around 1 pound to 1.30 in dollars. So 26k for training and 52k afterwards.
- nappy-doo 8y agoForget India. People should outsource to the UK.
- thrower123 8y agoI'm not sure if you are being tongue-in-cheek or not, but it's at least a workable idea. Outsourcing in my experience is an almost unredeemable shitshow, with far, far more misses than hits, but going the cheapest possible route is much more expensive in the long run. The timeshift between US and British working hours is a lot more convenient, if nothing more.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoPeople absolutely are - one of my previous employers moved a large development team to Belfast, and another team has a team in Dublin (not the UK, but presumably their rates aren't too wildly different.)