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Comment by colesantiago

5 days ago

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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andyjohnson0  5 days ago

> 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

mariogintili  5 days ago

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

okokwhatever  5 days ago

Extend the statement to mostly all Europe. Tech ecosystem is dead in EU.

  • c0balt  5 days ago

    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.

    • KellyCriterion  4 days ago

      OK - test: Send an applicatio to SAP, on next Monday, and lets see - their CEO announced nearly regularly large lay offs

  • surgical_fire  5 days ago

    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.