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Re:Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in by wyclif on Thursday November 25, 2021 @10:22PM (#29347251)
Because in the UK (where all of my ancestors are from) they don't value software engineers like they do in the US.
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Re:Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in by erik_seaberg on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:02AM (#29347598)
In the 1990s we were paid and managed like accountants. When the Web went mainstream, Bay Area VC companies created a sudden shortage which slowly spread.
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Re:Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in by wyclif on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:11AM (#29348585)
ISTM that the main cultural difference is that UK companies consider developers as cost centers, not profit centers. Therefore, the bean counters have an incentive to either eliminate us or consider us as interchangeable cogs in the system.
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Re:Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in by disgruntledphd2 on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:13AM (#29349176)
But FAANG do. So why don't they raise salaries?
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