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Google has a non sales presence in the UK, has done for a long time (indeed they claim not to have sales people in UK for tax reasons!). Amazon has just announc
by justincormack 12y ago
Google has a non sales presence in the UK, has done for a long time (indeed they claim not to have sales people in UK for tax reasons!). Amazon has just announced it is moving from Slough to Shoreditch. I am fairly sure Facebook has engineers here. The older tech companies were based in the traditional M4 corridor (Microsoft, Oracle, etc) but many companies there are moving to London, as it is easier to hire people.
Salaries are lower than the US, maybe, or parts of it, but lower than other English speaking countries?
- Nursie 12y agoI based that on my experience of the USA and Australia. I got a 60% raise to do the same job for the same company when I moved from London to Perth a few years ago. Tech salaries outside of finance in the UK in general are pretty depressed IMHO. As far as I can tell this is for a complex of reasons - engineers not expecting very much cash, the good ones all either go abroad or into finance, companies are used to mediocre engineers therefore are not willing to pay well etc etc. Me, I'm a high priced contractor because it's the only way I've found to replicate a US/AU salary. And I'm worth it. On my last project I committed twice as much code as the three permanent engineers combined.