The one I worked for wanted me to move to London, and I said fine, as long as you give me a comparable standard of living.
Nope, they took my Irish salary and converted it to GBP, and that was it (this was post Brexit, btw).
Obviously, I didn't move. And working with any engineers in the London office was a massive pain as anyone without family commitments worked in London for a year, and then transferred to the US for a massive salary bump.
The core issue is that FAANG don't benchmark against finance in London, which means that pay is pretty out of wack.
For instance, I got a 150K offer from an investment bank in London around that time, and I'm definitely not as useful in finance as I would be in tech.
It just blows my mind that they haven't fixed this to be honest (I suspect that they'll have to, now that Brexit has actually happened).
The one I worked for wanted me to move to London, and I said fine, as long as you give me a comparable standard of living.
Nope, they took my Irish salary and converted it to GBP, and that was it (this was post Brexit, btw).
Obviously, I didn't move. And working with any engineers in the London office was a massive pain as anyone without family commitments worked in London for a year, and then transferred to the US for a massive salary bump.
The core issue is that FAANG don't benchmark against finance in London, which means that pay is pretty out of wack.
For instance, I got a 150K offer from an investment bank in London around that time, and I'm definitely not as useful in finance as I would be in tech.
It just blows my mind that they haven't fixed this to be honest (I suspect that they'll have to, now that Brexit has actually happened).