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London, not Berlin, but a better comparison than USA: I know several London Engineers in the £80k-£120k bracket. I know as many Engineers at other companies in
by Normal_gaussian 6y ago
London, not Berlin, but a better comparison than USA:
I know several London Engineers in the £80k-£120k bracket. I know as many Engineers at other companies in the £40-£60k range. I don't know any in between.
Whats the difference? Not much in terms of 'years experience', but I know two things: throwing a poorly specified problem at any of the first group will get me a solution; at the second will probably not. Everyone in a company pretty much gets comped at the same category. There is no 50->100k Engineering path besides switching
- saddlerustle 6y agoSeveral finance companies will pay on the scale of £400k TC for very strong engineers in London
- EdwinLarkin 6y agoHow strong? Are we talking people like Brendan Gregg or just "tech lead" types like "the tech lead on YT"?
- saddlerustle 6y agoThe sort engineer of that can confidently ship large performant systems quickly, but there's lots of people like this who nobody's ever heard of.
- iamben 6y agoCan second this. Bank or fintech in London and a senior dev can do 100k+.
- st1x7 6y agoIt might just be a small sample size, I don't see why there wouldn't be plenty of people in the £60-80k range. And there should certainly be more people around £60-80k than £80-120k.
- Normal_gaussian 6y agooh yes, I wasn't meaning to imply there weren't, just that I don't know any.