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I went for an interview with GDS a few years ago. The interview itself was 5 hours long, which was gruelling, but it looked like a great setup. I'm not surprised they're doing well. (I got an offer, but turned it down in the end.)
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Enterprise architect at £50-60k per year seems like a role that has been put on the jobs website to provide evidence that it cannot be filled and thus can go to a service company rather than an honest expectation of getting any realistic candidates Maybe I'm being too cynical
I don't know about that particular role, but I can say that many people work in public service knowing full well they could probably double their salary in the private sector, but do it anyway. Mainly because of the large amount of annual leave and a pension that is unbeatable in the private sector, but also the opportunity to do really interesting work in genuinely unique environment, rather than work for another fo…
From what I can see, the annual leave for these roles is 30 days per year, this is nice but 25 days is pretty standard in most tech jobs in the UK, with some employers allowing you to sacrifice salary in exchange for more days (+ or - 5 days in exchange for equivalent days of salary)
I know the pension plan for civil service is particularly good, but I wonder how it compares in terms of actual pension pay with having worked for big tech and contribute part of a salary that is, as you said, probably double – plus company contributions or matching which can be quite high (5-10%). Also, the RSUs you get and yearly refreshers kinda become your pension plan for a lot of tech workers.
Life isn't all about money, but for most people money is the primary reason to choose one company over another.
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I don't know about that particular role, but I can say that many people work in public service knowing full well they could probably double their salary in the private sector, but do it anyway. Mainly because of the large amount of annual leave and a pension that is unbeatable in the private sector, but also the opportunity to do really interesting work in genuinely unique environment, rather than work for another fo…
While I understand that some people want to work in public service because they find the kind of work more meaningful; I think those reasons are a bit weak. From what I can see, the annual leave for these roles is 30 days per year, this is nice but 25 days is pretty standard in most tech jobs in the UK, with some employers allowing you to sacrifice salary in exchange for more days (+ or - 5 days in exchange for equiv…
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While I understand that some people want to work in public service because they find the kind of work more meaningful; I think those reasons are a bit weak. From what I can see, the annual leave for these roles is 30 days per year, this is nice but 25 days is pretty standard in most tech jobs in the UK, with some employers allowing you to sacrifice salary in exchange for more days (+ or - 5 days in exchange for equiv…
Then I would suggest the public sector probably isn't for you, which is fine! But clearly, many people do enjoy working there and are quite happy with a lower salary.
Obviously anecdotal evidence regarding the above but still
We run the Cosmic Bazaar forecasting service (Economist article: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/04/15/... ) on their PaaS and their services and people have been excellent to work with all around. Friendly, professional shop.
I worked on this for nearly four years. It’s a great fit for a lot of government needs: they need a stable, reasonably secure platform that helps them build medium-complexity websites. It’s based on Cloud Foundry, a “run your own Heroku”-type project. That’s starting to show it’s age now but it’s been a great model and had major benefits in government. Happy to answer more questions.
A bit off-topic, but gov.uk is quickly improving into an actual usable site. The GDS (Government Digital Service [0]) and the GDS (Government Design System [1]) - who run the posted link too - are doing a great job. Want to renew my passport? Easy, same UI/UX for getting a drone license, taxing my car and filing for benefits. Want to renew my driving license? Well, that's yet to move from the old DVLA site, but it's…
A bit off-topic, but gov.uk is quickly improving into an actual usable site. The GDS (Government Digital Service [0]) and the GDS (Government Design System [1]) - who run the posted link too - are doing a great job. Want to renew my passport? Easy, same UI/UX for getting a drone license, taxing my car and filing for benefits. Want to renew my driving license? Well, that's yet to move from the old DVLA site, but it's…
> Want to renew my driving license? Well, that's yet to move from the old DVLA site, but it's all getting there Some important UK government services are still lagging behind. DVLA, since you mention it, has a mix of okay and truly appalling services. I'm in the position of trying to renew my driving licence after it was revoked for medical reasons. It's now six months since my cardiac arrest and I now meet the medic…
To get a decent result on any IT project you have to fix the organisation behind it before you even think about replicating that organisation digitally.
While this makes complete sense I feel like I slept for 10 years and woke up in Looney Tunes universe where the Gov wants to sell you EC2 instances.
They are not selling it to you, but "public sector services". It's effectively the national government telling the various bureaucracies "hey, we got this cool service over here, easy to use and probably cheaper than what you are doing - give it a spin maybe?" In more "Napoleonic" countries the State would just mandate adoption and you'd never know it, but in the UK the public sector is awfully balkanized, so there i…
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