UK companies do not respect software engineers or reward them properly (not even stock), even interns in other places get paid 5x more than a senior engineer in the UK. There is a also a huge cost of living issue in the UK which makes it dead on arrival for any software engineering job in the UK.
I could say there should be more VC funding in the UK for startups but I don't think this would help either due to the above issues especially pay, as I don't see this at all.
So there is nothing the UK can do to make the situation better other than talented engineers should either go into finance / hedge funds, leetcode hard and compete for FAANG jobs only or move to the US and don't look back.
I could say there should be more VC funding in the UK for startups but I don't think this would help either due to the above issues especially pay, as I don't see this at all.
So there is nothing the UK can do to make the situation better other than talented engineers should either go into finance / hedge funds, leetcode hard and compete for FAANG jobs only or move to the US and don't look back.