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That's a quarter million USD per year. You are telling me that senior VPs make 2.5 million USD each year?
Probably, some of my offers were well north of that as a swe with only 3 years of experience out of college. The role they are asking for sounds like it requires a deep understanding of software development, people management, and the UK government to be effective, for a entry-level compensation .
Who will call app Britain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9iM_zzzQk
>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?
Do any of these sort of salaries exist outside of the US? How about outside of FAANG companies?
Hmm.. maybe I will apply.. I think the thing a Chief Digital Officer would do would be to map out each organizations data needs and mandate that their product be provided via a SaaS interface to their customers and/or exportable into something like Snowflake or Palantir or maybe a UK provider. Interfaces are the first thing that Bezos mandated for AWS. The latter is probably more risky politically but maybe there's a…
Well said. I’m going to cut and paste this in my application.
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That's a quarter million USD per year. You are telling me that senior VPs make 2.5 million USD each year?
I'm amazed by these salaries. I thought I was making decent money but it is nothing like that. Do any of these sort of salaries exist outside of the US? How about outside of FAANG companies?
I personally haven't seem them outside of the bay area.
As mentioned elsewhere I'm a new grad with ballpark 200k usd total compensation. My base salary is ~2/3rds of my compensation.
This is the equivalent of accepting minimum wage for being CEO of a S&P 500 company, blindfolded and without a steering wheel.
I'd personally take that job offer in a heartbeat (And would recommend anyone else to do so as well), because I'd have ~50/50 odds of failing upwards or downwards.
Heads, I win, and my next job would be the C-whatever of a S&P 500 company for real wages.
Tails, I lose, and my next job would be the C-whatever of a Fortune 5000 company, also for real wages.
Gov.uk saw a great turnover of talent under the Tories (starting with the Tory/Lib Dem coalition) as many people were simply disenfranchised/unaligned with Tory rule but also felt equally uninspired at the prospect of a Corbin government. Faced with no great outcome, people left.
Many qualified people in the private sector are going to pass, especially as you probably can't also invest or sit on the boards of other companies and all the other stuff tech execs do to further enhance their careers and wealth.
It is of no surprise to me they can't find suitably qualified folks to run this, the pool size of the intersections above (ideologically aligned with Tories, well qualified, open to pay cut) is minute.
And that's before you even consider the well made points in the other comments; that this is probably a bit of a shit job in the first place.
Because 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.
Also that they often lack the ability to do it, it's the legislative branch that makes the rules and budgets.
Of course, that does bring other problems...
The reality is that at £200k/y a suitably qualified person is taking a massive pay-cut compared to what they could make in the private sector and so would have to want to feel great deal of ideological or public service drive to take this role on. Gov.uk saw a great turnover of talent under the Tories (starting with the Tory/Lib Dem coalition) as many people were simply disenfranchised/unaligned with Tory rule but al…