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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.
Extend the statement to mostly all Europe. Tech ecosystem is dead in EU.
Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set. The best analogy I can find, if not a tired one, is the equivalence of software engineering to tool-and-die making. In prior generations where manufacturing was king, it was a necessary operational skill set in order to produce things at scale, yet is much less (if no longer) relevant in the age of additive or subt…
> Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set. In other words, you wasted time and energy becoming a programmer/software developer/whatever. Should have done something else.
But more importantly, this is only relevant for vomiting boilerplate code. I don't know about you but I always did a lot more than that.
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.
Extend the statement to mostly all Europe. Tech ecosystem is dead in EU.
@Mario - I looked for contact details in your profile but did not find any. We are currently hiring senior Rails engineers, fully remote in Europe (see an older job ad here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923191 EDIT and a current one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466732 ). Please feel free to reach out, and then we can see if there is a good match.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-gintili-software-engineer/ https://github.com/shellandbull
I'll send an application over. my contact email is code.mario.gintili [at] gmail [dot] com
Isn't the idea of the site to "hack" as in thinking outside the box, building your own projects and companies, doing things in interesting new ways?
Stop chasing remote roles - show up at the office and then maybe go remote after a while.
Very similar situation. I have been cancelled, and I can't face going back to employment, but finding a way to earn a crust as a solo engineer is proving somewhat hopeless. At least I'm not paying tax any more. Checkmate Rachel Reeves.
You still pay taxes through VAT, property, and other schemes.
Remote role? Why would anybody pay UK wages instead of $developing_country wages?
Intelligent people are cutting costs instead of trying to earn more money
disclaimer: we are 7 days a week in person