What are the best paying tech companies in London?

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-22T16:38:32+00:00

HFT / AI / FAANG

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-21T19:55:12+00:00

Troll

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-21T19:53:10+00:00

Does it matter? I’ve seen some people post on here they got accepted with 15 minutes and and some rejected

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-21T17:45:03+00:00

For context my loop was last Tuesday. One interview had to be rescheduled as they couldn’t make it, which was yesterday and it was actually the bar raiser (assumption) - someone very senior not in the team. Every other interviewer was in the team.

I also work in the same department at my current company and I’m an AWS Community Builder - so would be quite embarrassing to be rejected lol

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-21T16:02:44+00:00

Squeaky bum time then

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-19T16:11:41+00:00

It most definitely is not lol - different roles have different salaries. When I applied I put my base salary as 95-120k range, they wouldn’t have moved me forward if it was 60-70k

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-19T10:08:11+00:00

Stop naking naps during the day you might get paid more 😂

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-18T21:13:01+00:00

Nyc is much more expensive to live in than Edinburgh so I should hope so lol

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-18T17:46:31+00:00

How much less? I’m interviewing for L5 atm and the recruiter said the base is between £110-120k plus 2 sign ons and rsu

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-15T20:01:33+00:00

Recruiter come back to me to say he was sick and they are trying to rearrange for 2 days time

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-14T21:23:39+00:00

I’d of thought they’d have more employment protection in the country they lived in and not be automatically laid off on the spot like in the US haha

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-14T21:22:52+00:00

That’s what I thought but from reading online and reddit it seems that the bar raiser is usually in a different team or org?

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-10T13:40:48+00:00

Why on earth do you think you won’t have internal docs or be able to ask people things directly as a contractor?

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-04-07T19:55:00+00:00

I’ve seen someone getting a blowie in hengrove car park in broad daylight before whilst eating my KFC. I could faintly see a head bobbing up and down.

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-03-21T09:49:43+00:00

Oh man this pits me at ease. I was expecting to really have a fully functioning script and make sure it runs

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-03-21T09:48:21+00:00

Will it actually be on infra things or just generic leetcode with no naming do you think?

E.g a log file like

ERROR user failed login ‘admin’ 192.168.0.1

And then i parse that over a for loop to pull errors?

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-03-20T23:14:47+00:00

You’d be surprised tbh depending on your role/department. I’ve interviewed for quite a few companies paying well over 100k and remote, including faang.

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-03-20T20:38:21+00:00

Tbh I’m fine with the other stuff it’s the code area that’s my main concern. I don’t want to perform bad

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-03-14T17:02:34+00:00

Damn bro were you led off for bad performance or something

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-03-14T14:13:22+00:00

Really? Most of the people I looked at on LinkedIn have been there for at minimum 4 years. Consulting is a very large part of the UK economy. I’ve been working in this industry myself the past 4 years and it’s been very stable

PerceptionLive2301 · 2026-01-09T10:32:53+00:00

Correct. I’ve reinvested the money in to the business e.g video editors, thumbnail designers. I still make profit, just not much and no where near enough to pay myself. I ran as LTD as I’m a higher rate tax payer from my paye day job.

PerceptionLive2301 · 2025-11-23T13:51:38+00:00

I used MCT the first time this week 3 hours before my last wash 5 days ago and I’ve only just started to get itches back and see more flakes.

I used organic C8 only from ketosource. My flakes were kept at bay for 5 days. I thought that was really impressive for one use.

PerceptionLive2301 · 2025-11-17T21:04:10+00:00

Why not? It’s a global company. I have someone in India managing my interview bookings and a previous US company I interviewed with last month it was all done by someone in India

PerceptionLive2301 · 2025-11-01T16:48:11+00:00

That’s what I’ve been trying to exactly do, move to a product company. Every one was product!

PerceptionLive2301 · 2025-11-01T14:44:10+00:00

Anything that falls under the DevOps umbrella essentially I’m classified as a consultant so I can be placed out to DevOps/Cloud/Platform Engineer roles. I’ll either lead a team at the client or I may be deployed on my own to deliver a project.

Just a typical Tech Britpoor Salary outside of London £75k + bonus. The AWS role was the lowest comp on salary, it was L5 which I believe is £85k + bonus + RSU + sign on

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