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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by mikeash on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:09AM (#5874438)
For a more concrete perspective, if you assume that a good developer costs about $150,000/year, then this is one hundred years of development time for a team of 10 good developers, which is quite a lot.

I don't know just what this thing was supposed to do, so I don't know what the scope is.

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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by shitgoose on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:21AM (#5874511)
To 10 developers add a few dozens of Business Analysts and Managers. Outsource some work to India. Oracle licenses and IBM fees. That will easily get you over 100M.
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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by realtalker on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:16AM (#5874481)
no one working for the BBC in the UK would make that sort of money as a developer
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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by matthewmacleod on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:31AM (#5874571)
I don't know about that. I've seen a few tech jobs around the £70-80k mark at the BBC, which is about $120k. Throw in the additional benefits and it's probably not far off.
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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by IanCal on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:43AM (#5874636)
Hah, I wish. I was a senior engineer there and earned less than half that.
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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by jamespo on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:45AM (#5874653)
You don't join the BBC for the money in IT... for the lax culture perhaps.
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Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It by thisone on Thursday June 13, 2013 @02:17PM (#5875640)
a few, and they'll be in London so your living costs can be truly massive.

Sometimes the rates you see advertised are also 3 month contract jobs where someone is looking for attention by stating the contract amount as if the job was 12 months salaried.

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