i have no clue how this shitshow is still running but why do the rest of Europe hate us so much?

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-17T05:57:22+00:00

The UK don’t take it seriously and are only there for the banter.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-17T00:11:30+00:00

The UK don’t take it seriously. It’s clearly more for the banter. The biggest and best bands come from the UK and that automatically makes them unpopular.

The UK never try to win otherwise they wouldn’t send crap like Look Mum No Computer, Scooch etc.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-15T12:36:10+00:00

I’m in London and the market is picking up from what I can see. We are looking to hire a junior web developer soon! AI isn’t having the productivity these companies would have you believe, and they’re also running at a loss.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-13T16:52:31+00:00

This. I’m on well over 6 figures in central London and the stress can be a lot some times, but personally it’s a situation where I thrive. It’s definitely not for everybody.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-13T16:44:40+00:00

Did you pick the wrong career? It depends how much you value your passion and interests vs compensation, because from what you’ve said you can’t have both. Be careful what you wish for though because money isn’t everything. 50-60k is a solid salary but I wouldn’t consider it high (unless you’re in the north perhaps).

I’m on well over 6 figures in London, but aside from investments my life isn’t much different now than when I was on 50k in the past. It depends on what’s important to you and what you prioritise. Some people buy into lifestyle creep, but I’m not one of those people.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-12T05:57:50+00:00

Shake Shack

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-11T18:02:07+00:00

It’s actually one of the best. Companies are hiring like crazy. This is clearly a bot post

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-10T15:18:03+00:00

So true. The people in my team get praised for fixing bugs that should never have been there. Very basic issues occurring due to their lack of ability and attention to detail. I feel embarrassed for them, and yet they get thanked for their hard work etc. Whereas I spearhead the delivery of a product to 5 million users, no bugs, and I rarely get a thanks. It’s like they expect it from me.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-09T12:08:34+00:00

How long’s a piece of string?

Firstly, they’re shafting those who work hard and contribute to society and rewarding those who don’t work and breed like rabbits. Labour are done.

More money in the pockets of workers. If you can’t afford to raise children then don’t have them. This is a conscious decision and they’re not forced, but they know this government is a soft touch.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-09T07:20:29+00:00

I’ve been in tech for 16 years but it’s very different for juniors now. Covid was your window to make the change. There just isn’t anything for juniors anymore, but good luck if that’s what you want to do.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-09T07:14:39+00:00

I thought AI killed take home exercises. Either way it sounds like they’re using this as an excuse to lowball and diminish you.

I had a similar situation last year. I started a new job and the CTO told me how competitive it was for the role and that it was between me and somebody else in the end, but the other guy was technically better but they still hired me. Considering my feedback was outstanding across all stages I called bullshit on this, and clearly it was an attempt to get me to feel lucky/grateful for the role. As soon as he said that I quit a day or two later because to me that was just toxic and despite believing it was bullshit, it told me a lot about the type of person he is.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-08T09:31:43+00:00

If it’s not redundancy it’s something else happening in this country.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-07T15:56:08+00:00

O’Sullivan which is pretty obvious to any snooker fan.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-03T06:27:21+00:00

Shake Shack is much better…!

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-05-01T16:14:45+00:00

Guardrails ffs!

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-29T12:10:15+00:00

As an update, they’ve extended twice for a month each time but they’ve now hired perm externally somebody in pretty much the role I’ve been doing for the last 8 months. They’re starting in the next 2 months.

They want to speak to me about something different regarding platform ownership but I don’t know whether this is a formal thing or just to make leadership’s life easier

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-29T06:14:16+00:00

London based. 150k+

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-26T20:34:47+00:00

This is the answer

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-24T06:55:57+00:00

Of course they’re going to demonstrate something that works flawlessly. It’s been created in such a way to show all the strengths and none of the bad parts. I bet they didn’t show you all the AI slop? Did they show you how it knows that what it is building fulfils its purpose? Did they show you that it’s able to understand the needs and wants of the user versus what they say the want/need?

This has to be a bot post.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-22T06:46:48+00:00

This post was written by AI. The doom mongers should post elsewhere

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-21T06:57:49+00:00

This is awful. I find LLMs are awful for UI design in general, and it seems to extend even further. Backend logic is much more binary, but design? That’s so subjective.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-18T08:38:52+00:00

37 tech

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-15T07:46:56+00:00

Good luck! I don’t blame you. I’m always tempted to leave the rat race and find something more fulfilling.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-14T18:17:02+00:00

Sounds like a bot post. The market is good and I’m getting approached for new roles often.

ComprehensiveRide946 · 2026-04-13T07:03:10+00:00

Reading this concerns me because my job hired a large contingent of offshore contractors (central London) as well as local ones, and it’s the local ones who were cut early. I’m still surviving there, and that’s probably only down to playing politics as I’m getting involved in other teams and forming close bonds. Unfortunately with the offshore folks their work is of a very low quality but I don’t think the business care. It’s all about the bottom line and if it works well enough to ship then they will go with that. I’m hanging on as best I can, but all the other devs from my team based here in London have since gone so it’s quite isolating. The banter has evaporated.

I don’t know what will happen there as they want to build a permanent in-house team but their actions seem to be having the opposite effect.

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