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GrahamS: I'm a Software Engineer, not too far from you, and am on slightly less than you are (just over £30k not inc bonuses). I graduated 5 years ago, I don't think you are getting hard done.
Everyone knows contracting can be lucrative and is a good way to accumulate a variety of skills. However most contracters I know are struggling a bit atm.
IT is such a broad spectrum. If you are a decent programmer / developer and work in high tech companies in Cambridge (where I live), then £35k is pretty low, but that's one extreme of the spectrum - we're talking people who design the OS for the phones you all use, not IT help desk people saying 'try a reboot'.
Do people actually design the software that phones run on? I'm not sure that if I had anything to do with that I'd actually want to tell anyone.
'hack' might be a better term 😉
>Do people actually design the software that phones run on?
Where do you think it comes from ? 🙂
[i]>Do people actually design the software that phones run on?
Where do you think it comes from ?[/i]
Well, i always assumed the one on my old Motoroloa RAZR was an elaborate practical joke.
Thanks Sandy, but to be honest if you're only a couple of grand less than me after graduating five years ago, when I graduated 12 years ago, then I am getting a bit pumped really 😳
Footflaps: yep i've done firmware level stuff. Not phones, but medical devices (doing that at the mo in fact). Also done cash machines, military radios, telecoms monitoring, oil industry - all sorts really in a variety of languages. That's one of the advantages that makes up for the pay.