Why so?

It's a combination of:

* Less applicants for backend positions * The applicants we do have, for whatever reason don't pass interview at the rate frontend developers do * The backend devs that do pass interview, ask for too much money.

We know where the problems are, and that third point especially is causing our hiring manager no end of pain. But convincing our execs to significantly up the budget of the probably-already-most expensive department in the company is a tough sell.

What do your interviews consist of for backend and for frontend devs?

First stage is a chat with a technical manager, second is a 1-2 hour technical interview with some live coding, then a final chat with our CEO.

I haven't joined any FE interviews,but I understand they're structured in a similar way.

Computer science has the highest levels of graduate unemployment in the UK

whats the best way to prep for this sort of thing?

>Google juniors are more like £40k in london.

Are you sure this is up to date? I thought they were 90k - 100k GBP for fresh grad

Where do you find these?

Although I think it's best to find companies directly instead of going via recruiters, I found my most recent gig via https://www.a.team/

OP here. What's the equivalent for data science / ML / stats type jobs? I'm not a pure software engineer. Any code I've even written in my job has been for experiments, not for end products.

I think generally data science/ML/stats will pay much lower than SWE outside of finance, fyi

Not necessarily. I definitely make more than most (non-US) software engineers as a DS, but agree that finance pays a lot more than other areas.

yes but if they are smaller, often you wont have heard of them

What sort of quant finance is hot in London? It hasnt been hot in London for years?

Also whats wrong with banks, this is usually where the majority of quant jobs are?

Banks have worse hours than hedge funds just due to tradition, and you have to wear proper attire to work, and the upside is not as large as in hedge funds.

What sort of tech stack do you need for these types of businesses?

I was wondering too, particularly whether most MVPs and early stage startups are web apps (React, Vue etc.) delaying native mobile versions.

Who are the others?

1) is a cliche at this point, to the extent that this 2015 listicle has a huge variety of figures both new and old:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tech-ceos-who-ditched-college-for...

2) WhatsApp founder Brian Acton was famously rejected by Facebook (and Twitter), and is the canonical example, but there are others. There's even a website:

https://rejected.us

Is there a github for this?