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£42k starting salary w/ up to 40k bonus,first job out of graduating with a middle of the road CS degree (albeit a 1st). If you are looking for a high starting
by alva 12y ago
£42k starting salary w/ up to 40k bonus,first job out of graduating with a middle of the road CS degree (albeit a 1st).
If you are looking for a high starting salary, the financial industry is the way to go in London. Should be 6 figures by the time I am 30.
Good luck!
- joshcrowder 12y agoVery true! Financial pays the highest salaries for devs at the moment.
- yulaow 12y agoThat's true but you have to consider the amount of hours you'll do. I mean, if you get doubled the salary but also the hours per weeks it is not a real gain (it is just if you want to sacrifice the rest of your activities/mental_sanity for more money in the short term)
- alva 12y agoI worked out the other day that if for some (very unlikely) reason I do not receive a bonus this year, I will have been working for less than minimum wage...
- porker 12y ago..and if you're looking not to burn out and to enjoy your job, not the way to go unless you're a particular sort of person. Source: a long string of CS graduate friends who went to work for investment banks and quit within 5 years. At parties they used to compare how sh*t their employer was, not salaries & bonuses :)
- alva 12y agoVery true indeed! I cannot imagine lasting very long at it. Plenty of 60-70+hr weeks and a large amount of stress. Although I do think the experience will serve me well for job interviews in different sectors.