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What's a good salary for a 25 yo in tech in the UK?

>> No.16630405

>>16630404
Yes

>> No.16630407

>>16630404
A couple thousand more than your salary

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>>16630404
>>16630405
Yes

>> No.16630534

>>16630404
Depends OP, I am want 18 yo software engineering degree apprentice and my salary is around 28k gbp plus 10% bonus for good work and shit

>> No.16630977

>>16630534

Software engineer with only 28k and 10% benefits?
lmao anon.
Do you have to go to college for that amount?

I make the same amount of money here in germany for sleeping at my workdesk doing nothing basically.

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>>16630404
min £575pw, 20 hours a week, 15 weeks holiday, retirement at 50

>> No.16631032

>>16630404
Yes

>> No.16631044

>>16630404
Why are Brits so poor? Dayum.

>> No.16631058

>>16631011
It's cool how all those predictions came true

>> No.16631239

>>16630534

Holy fuck dude, you are getting ripped off big time.

I was earning 85k at 21 in London working as a senior software engineer - it's not rocket science to get into a high paying gig if you have a good portfolio and are good at social skills/selling yourself.

>> No.16631261

>>16631239
palantir?

>> No.16631277

>>16631261

No, tried getting into Palantir but was rejected on one of their shitty fucking gatekeeping whiteboarding exercises.

I was working at a startup you probably haven't heard of, but had a niche skillset so was able to ask for a high salary.

>> No.16631282

>>16630404

I work in tech marketing and it always surprises me how much more I could earn in the USA. I have my own business and this is my first year trading, I'm going to close the year on around £42k profit. But, in the USA with a salaried job I could get easily $120k for what I'm doing now.

It's bullshit but I don't wanna live in murica

>> No.16631305

>>16631277
kek I didn't even make it past the HR phone screen. still waiting to hear back from amazon though

any tips to break in to this shit, I'm in my last year of my electrical engineering degree and I don't want to be a wageslave on 30k a year.

>> No.16631319

>>16630404
It's sad really. Lots of FAANG guys with Master's from Imperial, Oxbridge etc on 80k salary when they could be earning triple that in the US.

>> No.16631331

>>16631261
>>16631277
High frequency trading and hedge funds are paying >100k but they're harder to get into

>> No.16631354

>>16631305

I'd recommend having good projects in a niche language that has a hype factor. It is significantly more difficult to get into grad schemes at larger companies, and the payoff isn't all that good as you would usually be working with near-obsolete tech and languages which will fuck you if you want to get into a cutting edge startup.

Contrary to popular belief startups can and do pay high salaries to the right people, you just need to convince them that you are better than the competition and that you are so good that they will pay 80k just to have you onboard. The best way of maximizing your potential in these two dimensions (i.e. skills and competition) is to write code and publish libraries on Github in a niche language or tech stack that is picking up steam. If I were someone just entering the job market today, I would probably pick Rust and try to specialise in it because I think in a few years it is going to be huge. Day rates for decent contractors in Rust are nearing 800gbp a day, which is crazy.

>> No.16631371

>>16631305

cont.

Do not under any circumstances accept a job that requires relocation to London and pays less than 50-60k. You will live a questionable life and it is definitely not fucking worth it.

>> No.16631392

>>16631371
wrong, don't listen to this retard, putting your life on hold waiting for the 80k salary that never comes is dumb as fuck, typical britbong advice

>> No.16631438

>>16631392

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand how expensive and how shitty London is unless you're rich

>> No.16631449

>>16631354
>>16631371

Fuck, I think I've left it too late to get a good software job after graduation.

I've only done C/C++ and some assembly in my uni course, and with EE they teach programming really badly - it's more "this is what the syntax is" rather than "this is how you solve a problem". Nothing on data structures/algorithms either, the best programmer I know on my course hasn't heard of a linked list before.

Should have started grinding out leetcode problems during the summer so I can be competitive against people with a CS background. In hindsight I should have studied CS instead of EE.

I think I'm going to take a stop gap engineering job and then work on my s/w skills in my spare time. I've already got a piss easy 40k grad job lined up in the Midlands so I should be okay for the time being, not sure how hard it is to pivot in to a good software role though.

And yeah, coming from down south fuck London unless you're on good money. Cheers for the advice anon.

>> No.16631463

holy shit I feel bad for you britbongs and europoors, 170k CADbucks here at 26.