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You are doing it wrong then. I was making 100k GBP a year in 1998 in London as a C++ developer, the jobs are out there if you have the talent.

by jpz 6y ago

gambiting 6y ago
I'd love to know where and how, because I have never seen a position offering £100k and above anywhere in this country. I have friends working as seniors for Facebook in London and they don't make £100k. I have two guesses - either you were a contractor, or worked for a bank where I've heard it's possible to cross £100k salary. Or third option, you mean <£100k of salary + bonuses?
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  FAANG pay terribly in the UK. The one I worked for wanted me to move to London, and I said fine, as long as you give me a comparable standard of living. Nope, they took my Irish salary and converted it to GBP, and that was it (this was post Brexit, btw). Obviously, I didn't move. And working with any engineers in the London office was a massive pain as anyone without family commitments worked in London for a year, and then transferred to the US for a massive salary bump. The core issue is that FAANG don't benchmark against finance in London, which means that pay is pretty out of wack. For instance, I got a 150K offer from an investment bank in London around that time, and I'm definitely not as useful in finance as I would be in tech. It just blows my mind that they haven't fixed this to be honest (I suspect that they'll have to, now that Brexit has actually happened).
- comp_throw7 6y ago
  Almost certainly the conversation is about total comp rather than base salary; at FAANG the difference is marginal (especially since at Facebook, there's no 1-year cliff; your equity starts vesting immediately every month). But even putting that aside, most senior (E5) Facebook engineers in the UK make 125-160k base salary in the UK. Even if that's denominated in USD, that still leaves a significant % breaking 100k GBP base. Source: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-Engineer/ https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En... (filter for "United Kingdom")

You are doing it wrong then. I was making 100k GBP a year in 1998 in London as a C++ developer, the jobs are out there if you have the talent.

by jpz 6y ago

You are doing it wrong then. I was making 100k GBP a year in 1998 in London as a C++ developer, the jobs are out there if you have the talent.

gambiting 6y ago

I'd love to know where and how, because I have never seen a position offering £100k and above anywhere in this country. I have friends working as seniors for Facebook in London and they don't make £100k. I have two guesses - either you were a contractor, or worked for a bank where I've heard it's possible to cross £100k salary. Or third option, you mean <£100k of salary + bonuses?

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
FAANG pay terribly in the UK. The one I worked for wanted me to move to London, and I said fine, as long as you give me a comparable standard of living. Nope, they took my Irish salary and converted it to GBP, and that was it (this was post Brexit, btw). Obviously, I didn't move. And working with any engineers in the London office was a massive pain as anyone without family commitments worked in London for a year, and then transferred to the US for a massive salary bump. The core issue is that FAANG don't benchmark against finance in London, which means that pay is pretty out of wack. For instance, I got a 150K offer from an investment bank in London around that time, and I'm definitely not as useful in finance as I would be in tech. It just blows my mind that they haven't fixed this to be honest (I suspect that they'll have to, now that Brexit has actually happened).
comp_throw7 6y ago
Almost certainly the conversation is about total comp rather than base salary; at FAANG the difference is marginal (especially since at Facebook, there's no 1-year cliff; your equity starts vesting immediately every month). But even putting that aside, most senior (E5) Facebook engineers in the UK make 125-160k base salary in the UK. Even if that's denominated in USD, that still leaves a significant % breaking 100k GBP base. Source: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-Engineer/ https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En... (filter for "United Kingdom")