So what salary does a mid-level developer earn at a London startup at the moment? I know a bunch of people at more traditional software places (i.e. not startups) in the £40-60k range. I know a some people who've gone through accelerator programmes as founders and are barely drawing enough salary to eat.
I think a lot of these job ads would be much more attractive if they actually listed the average/expected salary or at least the range. I kind-of understand why they don't, but it still frustrates me.
I get the intention of all these these scrapers-type comparison/search sites, and all the best with the venture - having had a quick look things are very tidy and well organised, but I always feel they miss the root cause of their existence; wouldn't it be much better to develop a central site with a client API so that all these diverse organisations can submit their job apps straight into the mix?<p>Establishing harmony among competitive organisations can be difficult - but these are all tech/design companies so they should 'get it' to some degree, and it's not as if they are giving away secrets - a centralised, standardised portal would just make life much easier to engage with talent - especially if there's a standardised application form instead of a mess of different online/word versions all wanting the same information but in different order or structure - that drove me mad when I was job hunting a few months back; I suppose it indicates commitment making someone slog through 'yet another' document format, but spending 4+ hours on 4 different applications, with multiple cuts and pastes AND dealing with fill-in lines created using rows of underscores (aargh!) is soul destroying. There's also the implication that one should print, fill-in, scan to PDF and email back but..seriously!?<p>If anything needs 'disrupting' its online job applications - I know there are a few sites that handle such things, but most of the ones I have seen belong to specific sectors (public health, military etc.) or just one large company.<p>Wired Sussex is an example of progress in this respect:<p><a href="http://www.wiredsussex.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wiredsussex.com/</a><p>Perhaps phase #2 could be to get all the target companies to agree you can host a standard application form that users could pre-populate and save to use as a template for specific job applications, tweaking things here and there as needed to highlight specific skills (or let users build a custom submission from pre-saved building blocks). It would really save a lot of time.<p>..anyway, good luck!
Stretching the definition of 'London' slightly:<p><a href="http://zonino.co.uk/job/1397" rel="nofollow">http://zonino.co.uk/job/1397</a>
I'd hardly call some of those companies start-ups. Take Blinkbox for example, that's backed by a FTSE 100.<p>On a more serious note, what do other devs feel about working at startups themselves (freelance + perm)? The only I nearly got involved in was folded within 6 months. I'd have potentially been in a very bad situation as a result had I gone through with it.<p>[edit]
I'd do piece meal work. Throw in hours along side my regular job but going full time without a decent golden parachute would worry me.
Great timing. I'm heading to the UK, south of Greater London, in August and want to start working in September (I'll be travelling in August).<p>At this point I'm unsure if I should start freelancing, attempt to create a business, work remotely, or find a job in or near London.
Could be really nice. Please add contract positions and get the damn rates displayed else it's a waste of time.<p>Anyone looking for a PHP/Python dev contract, shout me up!
Definiteky a niche I'd like filled. A few comments.<p>Mobile doesn't show what you just searched for.<p>Also the description here is wrong:<p><a href="http://zonino.co.uk/job/337" rel="nofollow">http://zonino.co.uk/job/337</a><p>Overall pretty good.