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Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

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Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

#84

Got me 100% right, which is weird because I figured the lack of apps on my phone would be a problem (I have a windows phone so there's a lot missing). Sounds like it wasn't too accurate for the rest of you though.

If you roll the dice enough times, you'll eventually get snake eyes.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

#85
post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey I'm actually moving from the US to the UK and finding the salaries are much smaller. Do you work in tech? How did you get that salary?

I am a C++ programmer (mostly C++ anyway, I also use C and Java albeit not much which I always say I am a C++ programmer as 90% of what I do is C++). My salary is quite high for a C++ programmer though but that is because I also have responsibility for a lot of things that would normally fall into the technical project or programme manager role. I help with pre-sales, technical support, architecture design and deploy…

Looking right now at work in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sounds like I'll need to make a move to London if I really want to earn the big salary.

I work primarily in native mobile. I'm working for Amazon right now and I've worked for banks, government as well.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

#87
post #84

Got me 100% right, which is weird because I figured the lack of apps on my phone would be a problem (I have a windows phone so there's a lot missing). Sounds like it wasn't too accurate for the rest of you though.

If you roll the dice enough times, you'll eventually get snake eyes.

Well right, especially since it looks like there's, what, 2^4 possibilities here? 1 person in this thread getting a correct guess seems about right.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

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post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a C++ programmer (mostly C++ anyway, I also use C and Java albeit not much which I always say I am a C++ programmer as 90% of what I do is C++). My salary is quite high for a C++ programmer though but that is because I also have responsibility for a lot of things that would normally fall into the technical project or programme manager role. I help with pre-sales, technical support, architecture design and deploy…

Looking right now at work in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sounds like I'll need to make a move to London if I really want to earn the big salary. I work primarily in native mobile. I'm working for Amazon right now and I've worked for banks, government as well.

Yeah you won't get such high salaries up in Scotland. Outside of London I know Bristol pays well also. I think Manchester has some good things going for it also but never worked there myself.

What exactly do you mean by native mobile? To me that could mean mobile device firmware or Android NDK type thing.

Re: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?

#90
You are a single guy younger than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year

Ding, except I'm in a long term committed relationship. Interesting that it thought I was single (I said no to every single dating/chat app on the list), no facebook, etc, only thing I have is instagram.

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