From cos at indeterminate.net Tue Jul 3 15:47:05 2007 From: cos at indeterminate.net (John Costello) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Banking-pm] How odd is UKP 100K and telecommuting for a banking developer job? Message-ID: I spotted a job listing via jobs.perl.org for a Perl guru, with a few other skills, and noted that the salary is UKP 100,000. Additionally, they want the person to be a telecommuter (not as apparent in the web posting, but it was mentioned in the email and note that the web page says "Onsite: no"). How unusual is this? Most of the UK jobs I see on jobs.perl.org list salaries no higher than UKP 50,000. The job listing is at . John From alex at owal.co.uk Wed Jul 4 03:02:39 2007 From: alex at owal.co.uk (alex at owal.co.uk) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:02:39 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Banking-pm] How odd is UKP 100K and telecommuting for a banking developer job? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42006.193.26.4.35.1183543360.squirrel@sflink.net> 100K for a banking salary is not impossible - but sounds rather unusual. I would not expect to see anything abouve 50K without banking experience and with the right specialised experience then the sky is the limit. I think the "Onsite:No" must be a mistake. Alex > I spotted a job listing via jobs.perl.org for a Perl guru, with a few > other skills, and noted that the salary is UKP 100,000. Additionally, > they want the person to be a telecommuter (not as apparent in the web > posting, but it was mentioned in the email and note that the web page says > "Onsite: no"). > > How unusual is this? Most of the UK jobs I see on jobs.perl.org list > salaries no higher than UKP 50,000. > > The job listing is at . > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Banking-pm mailing list > Banking-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/banking-pm > > From rafiq at dreamthought.com Wed Jul 4 03:26:20 2007 From: rafiq at dreamthought.com (Raf) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:26:20 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Banking-pm] How odd is UKP 100K and telecommuting for a banking developer job? In-Reply-To: <42006.193.26.4.35.1183543360.squirrel@sflink.net> References: <42006.193.26.4.35.1183543360.squirrel@sflink.net> Message-ID: <20070704111345.F47839@joshua.dreamthought.com> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, alex at owal.co.uk wrote: > 100K for a banking salary is not impossible - but sounds rather unusual. > I would not expect to see anything abouve 50K without banking experience > and with the right specialised experience then the sky is the limit. I know the agent. He is a good fellow and it is a legit role which I was previously interested in. The one difference which I spotted immediately is that I was told that they were offering 70K. I've actually 'just' gone for a role which I feel would be a little more long-termist. The impression I got was that their current team is one of 'outstanding' indviduals who are all ox-bridge, yale, mit, etc - with very unique, weird and wacky histories and hobbies. I used to work with two of them previously and must stress that they were 'across-the-board' hardcore. > I think the "Onsite:No" must be a mistake. It is a mistake, based on what I heard previously.. That said, I was told that one of their guys telecommutes from one of the southern states of the US, whilst being officially stationed in their New York office. I was also told that there's lots of opportunity to travel to New york, where half their team works.. I did get the feeling that they have a very 'hacker' culture in this team, so I assume that it would be good for anyone who is looking for this. I'd have loved this a few years ago, but I was dubious about the possibility for career progression - probably something to look out for. Perhaps they have upped their rate for the right candidate? R. From tla at mit.edu Wed Jul 4 03:40:32 2007 From: tla at mit.edu (Tara Andrews) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Subject: [Banking-pm] How odd is UKP 100K and telecommuting for a banking developer job? In-Reply-To: <20070704111345.F47839@joshua.dreamthought.com> References: <42006.193.26.4.35.1183543360.squirrel@sflink.net> <20070704111345.F47839@joshua.dreamthought.com> Message-ID: <24da8ba80707040340o524672e4k9266cd8ec000932a@mail.gmail.com> On 4 Jul 2007, at 11:26, Raf wrote: > The impression I got was that their current team is one of 'outstanding' > indviduals who are all ox-bridge, yale, mit, etc - with very unique, weird > and wacky histories and hobbies. I used to work with two of them > previously and must stress that they were 'across-the-board' hardcore. > > I think the "Onsite:No" must be a mistake. > It is a mistake, based on what I heard previously.. That said, I was told > that one of their guys telecommutes from one of the southern states of the > US, whilst being officially stationed in their New York office. I was > also told that there's lots of opportunity to travel to New york, where > half their team works.. I don't know the agent, but from this description I know the job. This would be the team I recently left in order to go back and do my D.Phil. in Byzantine history. (That thing about wacky histories and hobbies? Yeah.) Telecommuting might become an option after a while, but I seriously doubt they'd want someone who was a telecommuter from the start. The telecommuter in Raf's description worked onsite in New York for a few years before he moved. ?100K would have to be total comp, not base salary, though, if it is what they are really offering. -tara