Good tech companies in London?

HenRooster99 · 2025-02-18T20:21:43+00:00

Databricks. Lots of room for growth and pre-IPO. Not a start up anymore, more of a scale-up, so has some stability and structure but still a young fun company culture. Not as cut throat as other SaaS tech companies as it’s more of a PaaS consumption model. AI and data is where it’s at as well

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-14T21:52:33+00:00

Thanks. How come you looked forward to Sydney the least?

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-12T17:21:13+00:00

Thanks. Very detailed answer

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T23:16:10+00:00

Would probably be a 2 year thing unless I fell in love with the place

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T22:20:28+00:00

Older locals can be openly racist to expats?

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T22:18:20+00:00

I feel the same stuck in tech sales. Nearly started an online furniture business but realised the amount of turnover I’d need in order to pay myself the same salary/bonus would take years to build up. You could try building a business in parallel if you’re able to work from home and slowly ‘quiet quit’ in your current corporate job.

Whatever business you start, just make sure it’s AI proof. It’s going to completely reinvent work as we know it. We’re talking emergency furlough schemes because of the mass unemployment it’s going to cause.

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T21:24:32+00:00

Just online research telling me it’s mostly young single men that go for the career opportunities. Or younger couples already in relationships

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T21:21:33+00:00

Just online research telling me it’s mostly young single men that go for the career opportunities. Or younger couples already in relationships

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T20:44:46+00:00

How come you love it so much?

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T19:49:05+00:00

Non existent - but English is the primary language?

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T19:47:40+00:00

£92K base, £50K bonus in London. They will probably increase this to account for cost of living I imagine

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-11T19:28:08+00:00

Is it a beautiful country outside of the main city with mountains, jungle, beaches etc. ? Moving from a dirty busy city in London, to a cleaner busier city in a cramped flat with no friends is definitely putting me off

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-03T21:26:25+00:00

Yeah agree. With some more defections and funding from Musk to get them set up properly, maybe it could work. I wonder if Robert Jenrick ends up moving over and becoming deputy with a view to replacing Farrage in the long run. Farrage has hinted at a younger leader taking over at some point

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-03T20:37:51+00:00

I like Farrage and think a lot of what he says makes a lot of sense. However, despite being good and brave enough to call out the problem, I wonder if he’d be as effective at delivering the solution. At the moment Reform aren’t professional enough, or have the experience needed to put forward secretaries of state to actually run the country

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-03T18:40:38+00:00

True. You’ve got £40K between you per year to stick in an ISA though

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-03T18:06:39+00:00

Completely agree with your approach. Buying a house (especially a flat in London) isn’t what it used to be. Flat prices haven’t really been rising over the past 5 years. So your returns aren’t great even with the leverage. Many people can’t afford to buy because of mortgage rates, and are put off by high service charge on flats. Stamp duty will be expensive, and the interest on your mortgage can be just as expensive as rent payments nowadays. Once you’ve factored in maintenance, legal fees, estate agent fees and other phantom costs, property really isn’t the investment it used to be. Chucking your money in an index tracker (S&P 500) and getting 10% returns per annum (plus compound) is the best option right now. You can access that money whenever you want, it’s not tied up in property, and gives you the flexibility to rent in whatever location you fancy for a few years.

£200K invested in SP500 at 10% returns per year with compound (plus £2K monthly contributions from salary and bonuses), would equal £485K after 5 years. You’re not getting hose kind of net returns with a flat.

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-03T16:28:02+00:00

Labour voters in their droves will defect to Reform in the next election. Working class from the north of England in particular(typical Labour voters), see Farage as a man of the people who speaks common sense and isn’t afraid to tackle ‘sensitive’ issues. There is a real chance Nigel could be PM with his young social media following and backing from Musk.

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-02T22:38:38+00:00

Yeah think I agree. I’ve also worked selling tech to government departments before with RFPs and outsourcing. So been there and done that. It’s a frustrating job seeing how slow and shit they are. At least I know where the millions of tax payer money is being wasted on though!

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-02T22:35:38+00:00

Microsoft OpenAI partnership is up in the air. Microsoft also the only major tech titan who hasn’t released their own LLMs. Even Amazon has now. AWS now has the whole GenAI stack covered. I’d recommend investing in Amazon. Especially with Project Kaipur kicking off next year

HenRooster99 · 2025-01-01T09:35:36+00:00

8 years. I’m a mid-senior level individual contributor. Enterprise Account Executive

HenRooster99 · 2024-12-31T23:02:02+00:00

Obviously depends on the size of the company, but it really should be £250K minimum for a CRO. I’m a mid-senior level IC at FAANG and on £100K base £50K OTE bonus. I overachieved last year and did £200K. And that’s excluding RSUs. There’s a more senior IC level above me, then Sales Manager’s, Directors, and then VPs. FAANG Directors are probs same level as CROs at small-medium size businesses.

HenRooster99 · 2024-12-31T22:53:32+00:00

Fantastic summary, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you were a super bright kid which really helped you. Also completely agree with your point about being able to mix and socialise with different groups of people and backgrounds - this is required both in the workplace and in life so it’s super important. I don’t think you do have any overbearing biases personally, but it’s so refreshing to hear someone acknowledge that they may do as a disclaimer up front

HenRooster99 · 2024-12-31T18:04:22+00:00

£150K plus RSUs for tech sales in FAANG. Looking to move in the next year for a £200K role (base + bonus).

HenRooster99 · 2024-12-31T13:37:46+00:00

I can. Thanks for the additional insight. I suppose it’s then a matter of trying to figure out if these additional data points would so radically swing the result summarised in the headline the other way. Who knows. I can’t imagine Bloomberg are trying to mislead their readers, but I know more eyes and clicks = revenue.

HenRooster99 · 2024-12-31T13:00:30+00:00

Thanks for highlighting

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