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,

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).