Moving to London from US
Because of all this stupid situation with H1B thinking to move to UK. - What is TC in FAMGA? - What is rent for 2bedroom/month? - Can wife work if I have working visa?
OP, what’s the work visa situation in the UK?
I have no idea. That’s what I want to discover in this thread
How about moving to Mainland Europe, there’s lots of emerging opportunities and trending markets there... are you not preferring to pick up a new language and enjoy what life has to offer you and want to work only in English speaking countries?
Cant tell you TC without knowing role and level, but it will be significantly less than Seattle, New York or Bay Area and taxes will be higher. London has huge variation in rents, depends how close to the office you want to be. Amazon also have offices in Edinburgh, Bristol and Cambridge if you want to live somewhere less crowded and pricey.
Mobile developer, level around facebooks’ E4 (amazon’s L5)
Basically just apply 0.49 to whatever the US TC is and that will be the total comp in £s. e.g. if an L5 makes $300-350k in the US, they'll make £145-170k in the UK
This is interesting, that 0.49, not 0.5 🙂 Thank you, though
Mind telling us how you came up with this ?
Dude why would you move to a declining economy!?
Good point. But where else can I go where I can find good job FAMGA or almost level.
There exists none. Toronto, maybe at 40% US pay, that's about it. The last 10 years have clearly shown massive future growth is not in Europe, and most definitely not UK. In the next decade you might have a few Chinese cities and Singapore. There exist tiny pockets, like Google Zurich.
If op is Indian just go to Canada. If Chinese then consider going back to China. London is a dumb choice.
Russian. Will go anywhere except Russia
As a Russian you should get greencard very quickly. Are you only worrying about general political atmosphere to immigrants then?
I’m considering a similar move too - btw why not Australia - even lower salaries and opportunities there ?
OP, wait for Feb, change to a good company which sponsors GC right away, and get it in a year max. It's way simpler than leaving the country
What if they say: we prolong this rule for three more months? And the second rule about declines instead of RFEs still will be there.
Been in UK for 10 years, moved from india. I would say jobs in UK pay much less, taxation is more, Sky high house prices for tiny places in comparison to US. Stay in US as long as u have a good job and visa.
I’d wait for the brexit dust to settle. The situation there is unpredictable too.
Well.. it is your turn, China!
Why China?