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The UK's “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year
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#32This is the equivalent of accepting minimum wage for being CEO of a S&P 500 company, blindfolded and without a steering wheel.
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#33>the UK is recruiting a Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO), who will be working at the highest levels of the Cabinet Office to lead the digital transformation of public services in the country. All of this and more, for £200,000 a year. Maybe the reason they can't find anyone to do this is that they are underpaying for the position. The responsibilities described sound at least at the level of a Senior VP, if no…
That's a quarter million USD per year. You are telling me that senior VPs make 2.5 million USD each year?
Looking at these other responses, I think there is a quiet dignity to working at a respectable GS grade (or whatever) that the "HN crowd" just does not understand.
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#34>>"All of this and more, for £200,000 a year." Unless the British Government is giving out some windfall of equity this is the compensation package of a mid level software engineer at FAANG. For anyone remotely qualified for this kind of job it is an absurd pay cut. Given this budget I would suspect that the department will also be asked to hire staff at salaries that are well below market rates. In other words the p…
It's more than the PM's official salary. It's almost as much as he was paid for a ten hours a week journo sinecure. https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ex-foreign-secretary-boris-jo...
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#35>"All of this and more, for £200,000 a year."
Question for the Brits here: how long would it take someone making this salary, and supporting a family, to afford the down payment to a reasonably sized house within 1/2 hour of where they would be working (which I assume is central London)?
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#36Because it won't have any power. The person will just run around between meetings preaching about the right way to do things, while everyone else in the room rolls their eyes and ignores it. The _main_ problem is not that the govt lacks the _knowledge_ about what to do ... it is that they lack the _will_ to do it.
And if you take it on now, Brexit is going to happen and wreck everything, and also you'd have to deal with Dominic Cummings and his bizarre ideas.
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#37I second the sentiment of many comments here.
To use an analogy. Instead of trying to upgrade the engine in a model T to a modern block, start over. Get a new office, get a small team to redesign the workflow. Then test it live, handle the exact same workload as the existing office and fix problems until everything mostly works. Give first dibs on the permanent jobs to the folks from the old office. Hire for the rest and pray you met budget. If you did start over with the next office. If not, you'll be replaced shortly.
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#38>>"All of this and more, for £200,000 a year." Unless the British Government is giving out some windfall of equity this is the compensation package of a mid level software engineer at FAANG. For anyone remotely qualified for this kind of job it is an absurd pay cut. Given this budget I would suspect that the department will also be asked to hire staff at salaries that are well below market rates. In other words the p…
Average UK tech pay isn’t as high as that, at least not on average: https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/london-senior-developer...
This may itself be one of the reasons why the UK never developed one of the trillion-dollar businesses that they are reportedly looking to create.
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#39>the UK is recruiting a Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO), who will be working at the highest levels of the Cabinet Office to lead the digital transformation of public services in the country. All of this and more, for £200,000 a year. Maybe the reason they can't find anyone to do this is that they are underpaying for the position. The responsibilities described sound at least at the level of a Senior VP, if no…
There's an unhelpful idea that government employees shouldn't make a lot of money. But if that person is the difference between a billion dollar project succeeding or failing, a $1-2 million salary is a worthwhile price for top talent.
It also reduces corruption. One of the things Singapore did was to pay top salaries to government employees.
Like others have pointed out, many times people see the government job as a stepping stone to a cushy private job where they will make the real money. Thus, government employees treat the big companies with kid gloves because they don’t want to jeopardize future employment. If instead, the government job actually paid a competitive salary, they would be more focused on their current position and not trying to make sure they kept their future private employers happy.
Re: The UK's “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year
#40>>"All of this and more, for £200,000 a year." Unless the British Government is giving out some windfall of equity this is the compensation package of a mid level software engineer at FAANG. For anyone remotely qualified for this kind of job it is an absurd pay cut. Given this budget I would suspect that the department will also be asked to hire staff at salaries that are well below market rates. In other words the p…
£200,000 is a really great salary in the UK.
For someone with the title CIO at a company with >15k employees?
They are probably getting a fair number of resume's from CIO's at smaller companies, or mid level people. And like all good HR departments rejecting everyone who isn't making a horizontal move.
OTOH, lets say your looking for a pay raise, would you go deal with the government or jump ship and take a title cut at a us based multinational?
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3502418-apple-hires-astrazenec...