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Re: Are tech companies even hiring?

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In the UK tech hiring is fairly buoyant at the moment, and the salaries being offered have got some long-needed growth (over this last year we've begun seeing 6 figure senior developer jobs in the east midlands, whereas a couple of years ago getting a £60k salary for a senior in the east midlands was quite the achievement).

Woah the £100k glass (class) ceiling was broken in the east midlands? Does it involve commuting to London?

Re: Are tech companies even hiring?

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In the UK tech hiring is fairly buoyant at the moment, and the salaries being offered have got some long-needed growth (over this last year we've begun seeing 6 figure senior developer jobs in the east midlands, whereas a couple of years ago getting a £60k salary for a senior in the east midlands was quite the achievement).

Woah the £100k glass (class) ceiling was broken in the east midlands? Does it involve commuting to London?

Fortunately it does not. I'm in Nottinghamshire, and the only way I used to be able to do £100k round here was contracting, but the times they are a changing it seems.

Re: Are tech companies even hiring?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Woah the £100k glass (class) ceiling was broken in the east midlands? Does it involve commuting to London?

Fortunately it does not. I'm in Nottinghamshire, and the only way I used to be able to do £100k round here was contracting, but the times they are a changing it seems.

That's fantastic, especially in light of the death of IR35 contracting

Re: Are tech companies even hiring?

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Have you thought about building your own business?

With the quality of code that claude generates. Everyone now, even non-tech background is trying to build a SaaS. I wonder if everyone is building then who is consuming ?

Quality of generated code is honestly trash, Claude can build you a thing that will work somehow, but under the hood is unmaintainable, entangled, dirty, full of workarounds code :) You need to spend a lot of time controlling every its move to achieve decent code quality.
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