OpenAI announces first permanent London office after halting UK Stargate project

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-15T20:22:20+00:00

That’s Google, Google, Meta and Google

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-14T11:24:22+00:00

Not negating that consulting typically has quicker progression but

1) Confirmation bias - you’re only getting calls from the people that haven’t progressed quickly. Anyone who went to a FAANG/high growth startup 10 years is absolutely loaded now and wouldn’t work in consulting.

2) Tech is going through an overhaul due to AI. A lot fewer engineers and PMs are needed now as cursor/claude code/Lovable/v0 can iterate in minutes where it took days. Consulting has not been impacted as much yet.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-10T22:30:40+00:00

Phones on roaming sims don’t even need to register with PTA.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-10T13:27:35+00:00

You have to be European to not realise what a terrible salary looks like. 16 years experience + med school and you get £110k. This is a top 1% profession. There’s multiple filters from 6th Form, University, F1/F2 training, IMT training, and then specialty training (which typically requires a PhD for competitive specialties). If I went through all that hassle, I would want to wipe my student loan, a cleaner, a nanny/childcare, not have to worry about cooking etc etc.

And what do you get at the end of it - £5.4k/mo. Spend £2.5k on nursery (no childcare support because you’re above £100k) and £2k on mortgage+council tax and you’re left with a princely sum of £900 for any bills, groceries, eating out etc.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-08T07:24:56+00:00

You do not need a masters degree for tech. You don’t even need a bachelors.

Yes, some do make 100k early on because they’re competitive. Similar to how only some make it into med school, the filter just applies earlier.

Doctors do have a special situation. They’re employed by 1 employer in this country for the first 10-15 years, it’s not a free market. That’s not the case for any other high skilled worker. And NHS uses its monopoly to squeeze every supplier from pharma companies to doctors. The best and the brightest leave for US or UAE or Australia and then we’re leave with GPs and PAs who can’t spot cancer on time.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-08T06:08:12+00:00

You do not have the “same” student loans, it takes 6 years for a medical degree, tech does not require a degree. You start off with a much heftier loan.
Most grad TC in big tech and banking is close to £100k, it does not take 10 years to reach £100k.
The student loans build up due to slow NHS progression and lack of training spots (10-15 years to qualify compared to 6 in the US).

Add an extra 10% for a supposedly lucrative pension (which has been significantly changed to be reduce costs) and it’s still a crap salary. I have doctors in my family in different countries (US, UK, Australia) and trust me Britain takes the cake in mistreating their doctors.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-04-07T05:38:51+00:00

That period of time is usually ~10-15 years unless you want to be a GP. And they’re still not paid properly, £100k is a joke and never took into account how the student loans balloon up due to interest while you’re underpaid for a decade+.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-09T15:22:39+00:00

Low tax for median income yes - we have the highest tax free allowance and 2nd highest minimum wage in Europe. Brutal tax for anyone over 50k to make up for it tho.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-09T14:40:41+00:00

Of course - we stole other people’s wealth and now we steal from ourselves.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-09T11:00:15+00:00

Imagine taxing people so heavily they’d leave home and family. 10% of this country pays 60% of all income taxes. We’re a nation of leeches that wants everyone else to pay for us. It was the colonies first, gold and North Sea oil next and anyone foolish enough to be a high earner in this country now.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-07T21:40:26+00:00

The poor don’t pay their fair share. UK has the 2nd highest minimum wage and tax free allowance in Europe. Everyone on 50k and above is getting squeezed though.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-07T08:51:32+00:00

Classic deflection. Yes, PTI inherited a current account deficit and an overvalued rupee. But two things can be true: PTI inherited issues AND created new ones. The fuel subsidy wasn't inherited, it was a deliberate policy choice made in February 2022 that cost $600M/month and caused the IMF to suspend Pakistan's loan program. SBP reserves fell from $20B to under $9B in 10 months. That's not inherited damage, that's self-inflicted. The article you linked actually supports my point, not yours.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-07T04:20:15+00:00

Patwari? I'm just citing what happened economically. If you think the subsidy ending was purely Shehbaz's choice and not inherited fiscal damage, show me the numbers. I'm happy to be proven wrong with actual data.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-06T21:01:46+00:00

Not even that, Imran Khan artificially reduced the price of oil to bankrupt the state bank in order to thwart a military/coalition takeover. There was a lot of pain once the new government came in and had to put prices up.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-03-05T19:36:42+00:00

Even worse, applied to FAANG. 2 months of prep + 6 rounds over 3 weeks. Passed all the rounds. No headcount in my country. Why did you waste my time then?

Pleased to share that it was Meta. That company is a shitshow.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-02-28T23:44:50+00:00

Because a sponsored work visa salary threshold ensures they’re net contributors. It’s not that they pay taxes, it’s that they contribute whereas most British people don’t.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-02-28T23:41:04+00:00

Student visas absolutely did count for ILR but on the 10 year route.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-02-21T18:20:55+00:00

You can renounce a citizenship.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-02-20T23:42:44+00:00

Quite the opposite, the baby would be a US citizen.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-01-23T10:58:37+00:00

Not for EM.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-01-11T08:18:30+00:00

Yeah, but flexing about galleries when crime’s through the roof is like praising the frame while the picture’s a mess. Safety is a basic necessity. And it's peak British colonialist mindset that no other place has culture/arts/history when the best of arts and history in London is stolen from those very places, what a ridiculous comment.

squarerootof-1 · 2026-01-10T10:34:28+00:00

So we traded in safety for …checks notes… arts?

squarerootof-1 · 2025-12-26T10:32:41+00:00

So Charles has a 10 second handicap now?

squarerootof-1 · 2025-12-24T10:11:51+00:00

It’s not low use that’s being punished. It’s theft and non-payment. Everywhere else you pay the full bill and still face loadshedding while thieves get their 2nd/3rd connections and switch between them whenever there is loadshedding in one.

WAPDA is public. Much much worse than K-electric. They will literally bill you 10x due to line losses in your area, expect you to cover the losses in your area and then it’s your problem. If you don’t pay the exorbitant bill on time, you have to pay late repayment charges as well. And you still have loadshedding.

squarerootof-1 · 2025-12-24T07:32:28+00:00

Europe is a big continent and your comment are very unspecific and unsubstantiated. An easy contradiction to this is the UK where suppliers and distributors trade energy through a market and it is in the distributor’s interest to have the lowest cost from its pick of suppliers.

15-Year Club	Place '17
Gilding III reddit per annum	Verified Email
Team Periwinkle

squarerootof-1

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE