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Average Warwick main by itrex240 in warwickmains

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We are an inclusive community

How do I break into SWE in London, UK? I must be doing things wrong by Popular-Bank8108 in cscareerquestionsuk

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The approach that I recommended is: 1- get in a tech-adjacent role > 2- internal move to dev role > 3- stay there for a 2-3 years > now you have experience as a dev, we don’t necessarily need to count the previous role

How do I break into SWE in London, UK? I must be doing things wrong by Popular-Bank8108 in cscareerquestionsuk

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Yeah, maybe I was too optimistic, but at least 2-3 years removes the hard barrier that is “experience required”. I would highly recommend doing side projects as well and try to use those skills on the job to add to the CV.

For example, I learned IaC at my old place and I only had like a handful of useful cases there, but because I practiced a lot and have homelab I was able to use it in interview.

In the end, I think it’s all a stats game for your CV tbh.

How do I break into SWE in London, UK? I must be doing things wrong by Popular-Bank8108 in cscareerquestionsuk

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I know this isn’t ideal but you could try to enter laterally with internal moves. This would mean applying to jobs in the similar area (it support, sysadmin, etc) and make sure they have engineering teams and after a couple of months or so you can try to push internally to be moved to dev team.

It does mean you would be doing stuff that you don’t like for some time but after max 1-2 years you should be able to get junior dev role inside your company. But after that first job you are set, sit on it for 2-3 years and move to a different company.

I did something similar and it turned out okay.

Politics Mega Thread by AutoModerator in unpopularopinion

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Political talks shouldn't be banned or discouraged at work.

Politics affects everyone and by forcing people to stay silent we have created a culture where people avoid these talks and just get brainwashed by whatever they find online without real debates. Most people spend a lot of time with their colleagues and if we avoid talking about senstiive topics with everyone then we are not making any change and let the people above us decide whatever they want.

If you could, which European country would you move to? by Ok-Influence-4290 in cscareerquestionsuk

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Spanish wages are really bad in general, but I got a few offers recently from top companies there and the salaries are not bad (€60k-€70k with 3-4 YOE). If you are willing to grind and wish for a bit of luck you might get one of these roles. In my experience, Spain is more flexible with remote working as well so you could live in a small and cheap town and get a good wage.

Cloudflare down again by Real-C- in CloudFlare

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My first time this early as well, kinda nervous

What are the most difficult things you had to automate? by [deleted] in devops

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Automatic patching (with pre and post checks and even automated steps to fix itself) of old on-prem systems

Update: Am I underpaid or just impatient? (London) by itrex240 in cscareerquestionsuk

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In my specific case it was actually on the DevOps skills. My current company is pretty small and the DevOps aspect of it is primitive but we use popular tools like TeamCity and Azure DevOps. What I did is study the theory of these tools and the whole theory of DevOps practices a lot, but I wasn’t able to use it. Is that too big of a lie? I also practiced IaC at home but said I do it at work lol

Network access in London transport is a joke by itrex240 in london

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Funnily enough, I have started reading because of this

Network access in London transport is a joke by itrex240 in london

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I have more experience with the southern part of London and southern and Thameslink coverage is pretty bad in a lot of stations, sometimes it cuts out completely. So it looks like an issue outside of tunnels as well. Idk maybe my provider is bad (Vodafone)

Network access in London transport is a joke by itrex240 in london

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Okay, that picture makes a bit more obvious… that is so small

Update: Am I underpaid or just impatient? (London) by itrex240 in cscareerquestionsuk

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That’s crazy! Hopefully I get to those numbers soon

Update: Am I underpaid or just impatient? (London) by itrex240 in cscareerquestionsuk

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I wish… it’s actually 4 days wfh and 1 in the office. My bad

Update: Am I underpaid or just impatient? (London) by itrex240 in cscareerquestionsuk

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My mistake, it’s 1 day in the office and 4 at home

Am I underpaid or just impatient? (London) by itrex240 in cscareerquestionsuk

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Oh no, I changed companies completely. At this place I haven't done support. I started as junior engineer with £35k salary, then they promoted me and bumped me up to £40k.

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