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I work in UK FS in London as a contractor. The work is pretty lucrative (for the UK) but not overly exciting. It possible to make this sort of money (I do not)
by cutthegrass2 6y ago
I work in UK FS in London as a contractor. The work is pretty lucrative (for the UK) but not overly exciting. It possible to make this sort of money (I do not) but it is extremely rare.
Most of the >£100k permanent (not contract) jobs I see have "Architect" in the title which typically means not just coding.
As an additional note, the UK contracting market is on a precipice at the moment with an uncertain future.
- maccard 6y agoI'd imagine much of the top performer work at FAANG (like the OP's post here) isn't overly exciting either! > but it is extremely rare. I'd expect so, and it seems this is rare in the US too, (this is literally the top of top performers at the top companies), but you'd expect to have _some_ indication of this information leakign out. > Most of the >£100k permanent (not contract) jobs I see have "Architect" in the title which typically means not just coding. Any idea on the 500k+ roles? (e.g. this post).
- cutthegrass2 6y agoI don't see the FAANG companies offering specific roles for "Architect" like the old school enterprises do. Architecture is something to reason about as a team and the accountability of architecturally significant decisions seems to rest with the team also. The >$500k roles seem to just be the upper echelons of a software engineer role.
- varispeed 6y agoAs an architect you'll unlikely do any coding, maybe when there is a downtime and you are extremely bored. Most of this job are meetings, writing reports, passing messages, consulting developers and giving direction and resolving issues in the teams (e.g. team A wants to use framework X, team B wants to use framework Y) by creating guidance.