Graduate employment

Wow thats really good progression.

Can I ask what was your first role in IT? What was the title and role?

What is your current role?

Thanks

1st job was a Support Engineer. 2nd line support and project rollout type stuff.

Now I'm an IT Consultant.

Wow,

And if you don't mind, can I ask the method/website you used to get that Job


Im doing a Accounting and Finance degree and would if a chance came to move to IT.

But my main fear is - I hate Coding/Programming, Don't know anything about Java/C++ etc.

Do you deal with Codings and stuff like that? How did you learn that since you did a business degree?


Thanks

I did a business degree but got my first job in IT. It was a 9 month graduate role for £15.5k. TBh I was just happy to get any job as it is very hard to get a job in IT without any real world experience. Within a year I was up to 27k, then £33k and now £40k after 5 years.

As others have said already; most places value experience far beyond your degree to the point that its almost not worth even bothering with university for a job in IT.

Area?

The whole point of stock is to retain it, it also stands as bad form immediately selling them off, so yes, they are completely meaningless in short term relevance to given salary.

In the UK, specifically London, the most a recent graduate will ever see from a company like Google is £40k. End of.

Once you have the stock it is yours, and you can do with it whatever you like. Selling it is not in bad form, and even if it were it is absolutely your prerogative to sell it. Google grants stock and is publicly listed converting the grant to cash is trivial (unlike getting options in a private company as is typical for startup employees).


Simply false. My Facebook ("a company like Google") offer was for 76k base salary, plus stock + bonus. The company I ended up going with offered slightly less base, but still much closer to 75k than 40k.

$105k base in Mountain View is consistent with the Google new grads I know, and is at the low end of salaries in the bay area. I would expect people who have previously interned there / who negotiate with other offers to be able to get more.

I did a business degree but got my first job in IT. It was a 9 month graduate role for £15.5k. TBh I was just happy to get any job as it is very hard to get a job in IT without any real world experience. Within a year I was up to 27k, then £33k and now £40k after 5 years.

As others have said already; most places value experience far beyond your degree to the point that its almost not worth even bothering with university for a job in IT.

South East

Just got made redundant and found a new job £6k pay rise after 8 months experience not bad.