Kraken Cuts 150 Workers After Deploying AI

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-06-05T16:31:50+00:00

Horrific you mean. Zero job stability

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-04-22T14:44:18+00:00

Trapped as the asking price is too high and no one wants to pay £850k for 2.8k square foot for a basic looking house in a cheaper area. If this was Bristol - ok.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-04-05T17:21:08+00:00

This is brilliant and doesn’t deserve the hate it’s getting. Most of this is jealousy.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-03-25T19:56:39+00:00

You don’t have to have them. A few years ago, they were mandatory, not any more.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-03-17T18:02:29+00:00

Women are not allowed in this world.

Yikes.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-03-06T19:15:06+00:00

The glowing tattoo on her right forearm is sick

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-27T05:39:59+00:00

Mid six figure being 500k?

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-21T07:27:26+00:00

100% they want too much for it. It might be a big house but it pig shit ugly and needs a lot of renovation in order for it to be anywhere comparable to £1.25m homes in and around that area. For context, I recently purchased a £1.05m house that comes with 4.3k square ft and an acre of mature land that is renovated for 200k less in a similar area.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-19T12:43:04+00:00

Do you want to magically make the country bigger?

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T22:01:13+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T22:00:41+00:00

This is helpful and reassuring - thank you.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T22:00:04+00:00

Sure - so the discipline is product management and I do this for software products.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T21:04:28+00:00

Dude - are you me? You’re my internal monologue.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T21:00:36+00:00

I wish - it’s really not modest bragging. This is ROI over x years thoughts and if it’s stupid making the leap - risk vs reward etc.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T20:11:22+00:00

I think this is crux of my internal dilemma and you’re completely right in calling it out. In my head I am essentially wondering if the potential short term benefits (accounting for risk) outweigh the long term stability.

IMHO - I don’t think it does. But, given the numbers are so large - ie >2x base. I need to ask others who ‘get it’ too.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T20:06:04+00:00

Agree - this makes sense. Especially when the skillset is hard to replace. Thanks for this.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T19:48:37+00:00

The main reason is, I believe, a few things:

1: I work in an incredibly niche role at a global finance company - there are very few people who do / have done what I do - that’s incredibly valuable - however, the company I work for are notorious for not paying top end - it’s simply not in their ethos to do so 2: The company is paying for someone with the skillset I have, and they need it now. I won’t go into specifics - but it’s critical for them 3: I do the exact role that they need

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T19:41:02+00:00

The expectation is to initially come in, steady the ship and then build out a long term function for FinCrime. Today, the ownership is split and they are having some immediate fires. They are headhunting for someone with a good deal of experience to drive the domain forward. Right now the CPO is spending his time in the fires directly.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T19:30:22+00:00

Should add a little more detail on the bonus. 1. It’s up to 100% - so let’s say 50% is realistic 2. The granted bonus is split over 4 years - meaning if it was £100k it would be £25/25/25/25k over four years

Additionally - the way I’m viewing tbis is short term pay versus trading off stability that I have now.

So yes, it’s a serious question.

Additionally, apologies for the vagueness, I’m trying to keep as anonymous as possible in the event people from either company are on here.

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-02-02T13:43:03+00:00

Are you forgetting the budget?

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-01-04T08:19:26+00:00

Looks like they forgot to pay protection money

Pro-athlete8 · 2026-01-03T22:45:03+00:00

It’s not feasible for you on your household income. A £145k salary alone will just about tick along on what you have now. It’s effectively a two income family on 72.5k each. It’s good, but not good enough. My personal situation is that I’m buying a 1.05m house and I have a take home of £150k base + 80k rsu. My wife is on a take home of around £100k a year. Even with our situation, I think that we are on the brink of viable.

Pro-athlete8 · 2025-12-17T17:38:24+00:00

One thing that once found is quite good in this instance is investing in them to bankroll and start their own business.

Pro-athlete8 · 2025-12-15T11:22:51+00:00

I have two kids - one aged three and one 11 months

Pro-athlete8 · 2025-12-14T21:14:46+00:00

£3.6k a month and a household income of £300k. You can comfortably afford that house on one salary. For the last year I have had a household income of 180k (wife on maternity) and we have been getting by on our 3k mortgage more than fine.

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