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The large consultancies are tied to the global market, as opposed to the UK market. The UK vastly and systemically undervalues it's intellectual capital - espe
by garethsprice 12y ago
The large consultancies are tied to the global market, as opposed to the UK market.
The UK vastly and systemically undervalues it's intellectual capital - especially in tech and entrepreneurial pursuits.
If you are young and ambitious, you can either stay and fight against the current, or find a route to a country that is more meritocratic/skewed in your favour.
I moved to NYC and the situation I am in simply does not exist in the UK. The UK is a great place to live in many ways, but tech salaries are not one of it's strong points.
- notahacker 12y agoThey're both tied to the global market, just different ends; the UK attracts business from other parts of the world for financial services and big shiny projects approved at board level and outsources it in day-to-day development work, web design and devops. There are still well-paid developer roles in financial services, but not enough to push developer salaries up in other industries. As for startups, if you think developer salaries in the UK are bad (which compared with the cost of living they certainly are) you should see some of the non-developer salaries and experience requirements at startups and small agencies. Not to mention how demanding such companies can be about candidates to work unpaid for a month or three. The combination of SV aspirations and cost of living (in London at least), plenty of unemployed professionals and a decided lack of investor-overoptimism isn't a great one for the junior employee.