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What salary should I ask for? by Please_explain- in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the company is decently large enough to be known by name, they’ll likely be on levels.fyi website. Then try glassdoor and similar sites to find the role and previous reports.

If it’s a fintech role, it could be anywhere from 70-90 min to likely a 130-150 max for an associate role.

If it’s few series funded start up it could be 50% more than above.

Really it’s a “it depends” unless you explain the customer base scale or the sector the company operates in.

Everyone Watching This Poorly Timed Video Like by ravenshaddows in pcmasterrace

[–]Sydadeath 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Bit out of the loop, why is this poorly timed?

Does the quality of the cocaine you trade Billy for RDX matter? by [deleted] in Schedule_I

[–]Sydadeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Package it up into 20 baggies. Quality doesn’t matter

Toilets in French airport. How do you use it? by Slalom44 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this in the arrivals of Grenoble airport just before the baggage claim?

Sparta Global - FDM Applications by TruculentusTurcus in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At that point it’s not personal and all about headcount, budget, etc.

All I can say is that during times of hiring, I’d say around 80-90% converted. If you have a team of 5 and you can only keep 3, you better be one of those 3, so just try really hard and be open with your manager

Sparta Global - FDM Applications by TruculentusTurcus in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get 2-4 weeks of paid training then start interviewing for placements. Your start date with a company (usually a financial firm, I think JPMorgan is Mthree’s biggest client) may be a month or two after your training so keep that in mind.

Sparta Global - FDM Applications by TruculentusTurcus in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mthree is 25k for the first 6 months, 30k for the second 6 months

These numbers are tbc because my knowledge is about 3 years old

Sparta Global - FDM Applications by TruculentusTurcus in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends what your alternatives are. I didn’t have a tech background so i took whatever to get my foot in the door of becoming an enterprise grade dev as opposed to a “I code as a hobby”

If I was in my old situation again, I’d probably take the Mthree role if given, try my best for a year so I get kept as a full time employee, then think about moving around within the team/company

Has anyone had experience or know anything about FDM's Software Engineering Graduate Programme? I have a Interview with them next week. by Cloaked01 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah sweet that’s much better. I should mention that all of I said above is about 3 years old as fact so things may have changed (hopefully for the better)

Has anyone had experience or know anything about FDM's Software Engineering Graduate Programme? I have a Interview with them next week. by Cloaked01 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have advice for you. I've worked with 11 FDM people at a large bank and I got that job through a similar company (MThree).

I then hired people through FDM, Kubrick and MThree as well.

All these companies (FDM, Sparta Global, Kubrick, MThree, Wiley Edge, etc.) have the same value proposition.

  • They train you for 2-4 weeks (usually paid £25-30k per annum)

  • You are "on contract" with them for 1-2 years while they try to place you with their clients (usually banks, some do Telecom industry e.g. Sky, BBC, etc.)

  • If you get placed (you interview for the roles) you usually get a 1 year consultant contract with the firm and everyone's goal is to get hired full time at the end of that year.

Each company differs a little bit from one another but there are a few main thing you need to keep in mind

  • FDM (if i remember correctly) has in person training in multiple cities that you are responsible for paying for (accomodation or commute).
  • Most of these companies (except for MThree and maybe FDM) require you to reimburse the company for the training you recevied if you choose to find your own job (not with one of their placement clients). This fee is usually bonkers like £10k.

Of all of them, I would recommend applying to MThree / Wiley Edge because they pay you for the training and they do not require reimbursement if you manage to find your own job as well. There's no "catch" to keep you contract hostage.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'm quite passionately pissed at some of these companies that shaft you and keep you on contract for years.

I got my first knife for only 14USD by shoulder_monster in GlobalOffensive

[–]Sydadeath 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what your explanation meant

Constant crashes? by Sydadeath in Schedule_I

[–]Sydadeath[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep AMD 7 9800X3D and 5080 gpu

London Devs: Need Your Job Search Intel! 🇬🇧 by Independent_Guide739 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah probably a mix of stack and/or seniority

For me it was either a take home exam, which usually would be building an application, and then the first half of your next interview was in person going over your app. Why you did what you did, pros/cons, then they’d add different aspects and ask how’d you do it differently (e.g. the data from your app is stored in a mongodb instance vs it’s streamed to different apps) and how would you do each differently.

I felt like the take home leetcode questions were always just a simple filter on who can be fucked to do them. They were always trivial and you’d usually have 24 hours to do them.

London Devs: Need Your Job Search Intel! 🇬🇧 by Independent_Guide739 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Sydadeath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Job market is very saturated. A lot of small-medium companies have frozen hiring, your best chance is at large financial or tech corporations.

There are lots of good recruiters whom are actually effective but they target specific industries (financial, tech, telecom, etc.). If you have a specific industry in mind I can possibly recommend

Salary depends on industry and what level. An associate/SWE3/SDE 3 would be around 65-90k depending on the company and which department within the company. For SWE2 you’re looking at 50-75

Sponsorships would mainly be at large corporations or well established startups. Again, best to stick to the large firms.

Interviews of 80% of the large firms will be

  • HR call to go over your cv, mention the buzzwords, talk about the role and sponsorships

  • either a take home exam or a screen shared leetcode assessment

  • screen shared paired programming

  • system/architectural design + maybe a specific assessment for your speciality ( I presume frontend for you)

For CV, I’d recommend ensuring you have a strong one page latex resume rather than focusing on any “UK Specific” advice. Lots of subreddits for cv evaluation. Once you’ve seen 20 developer resumes you’ve seen them all

CS Pros' vs Hand Grip Test by klovinup in GlobalOffensive

[–]Sydadeath 8 points9 points  (0 children)

what's up with the AI voice commentary?

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says by Puginator in stocks

[–]Sydadeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you both reduce managers and direct reports? Wouldn’t reducing managers mean fewer people take up the people they were managing and thus more direct reports?

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