Are you able to move / relocate away from the UK?
Unless the company is a FAANG company or hedge fund, the UK tech scene is dead.
I don’t see any good UK startups worth joining in the UK. All the good ones are in SF / NY, etc.
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> Unless the company is a FAANG company or hedge fund, the UK tech scene is dead.
Try to look beyond startups and pure software companies. There are many businesses in eg manufacturing or in less fashionable locations that struggle to hire decent devs and will often pay pretty good† money.
† obviously not London/SV/NY/FAANG money
I can, I have an EU nationality so working for an EU client is seamless to me.
> Unless the company is a FAANG company or hedge fund, the UK tech scene is dead.
That is VERY, VERY true
> I don’t see any good UK startups worth joining in the UK. All the good ones are in SF / NY, etc.
There's a few popping up all over the EU too but from my search a single hub in the US(Say Austin, TX) has a bigger and better ecosystem than the entirety of UK+EU.
Funding is better over there too
Mario Can you please expand on the comment that you agree with, "the UK Tech scene is dead".
What's actually going on within the UK tech jobs landscape? What about certain sectors like fintech? What about all the recent AI startups hiring? What are your on-ground observations?
Within my LinkedIn feed bubble, things are not that bad in the UK, but what is actually happening?
Extend the statement to mostly all Europe. Tech ecosystem is dead in EU.
That seems pretty overzealous, companies like SAP or Heinlein are doing well-ish and the recent push for digital sovereignty has induced some money. There also is a bunch of mixed shops (doing he and software or integration work).
The primary difference is that many expect on-site and they pay is generally not US-startup scale.
Many companies also expect you to at least have some knowledge of their local language (e. G., German, Spanish or Polnish) and not just English. One has to adapt to be competitive here.
OK - test: Send an applicatio to SAP, on next Monday, and lets see - their CEO announced nearly regularly large lay offs
I must be a necromancer when I can afford a mortgage and a family being a Dev in EU.
Software Development Lich. Does have a nice ring to it.
Maybe my old Nintendo Switch can be my phylactery. I have a particular fondness for it.
Rubbish - you guys are spending too much time on twitter x.
So Uk dead, Eu dead..
How is Asia doin?
Meanwhile there are 5m+ devs in Europe, more than in the US apparently.
Nah, definitely not.
And programmers haven't gotten any better in the last 5 years
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