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£42k starting salary w/ up to 40k bonus,first job out of graduating with a middle of the road CS degree (albeit a 1st).

If you are looking for a high starting salary, the financial industry is the way to go in London. Should be 6 figures by the time I am 30.

Good luck!

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..and if you're looking not to burn out and to enjoy your job, not the way to go unless you're a particular sort of person.

Source: a long string of CS graduate friends who went to work for investment banks and quit within 5 years. At parties they used to compare how sh*t their employer was, not salaries & bonuses :)

Very true indeed!

I cannot imagine lasting very long at it. Plenty of 60-70+hr weeks and a large amount of stress. Although I do think the experience will serve me well for job interviews in different sectors.

Very true! Financial pays the highest salaries for devs at the moment.

That's true but you have to consider the amount of hours you'll do. I mean, if you get doubled the salary but also the hours per weeks it is not a real gain (it is just if you want to sacrifice the rest of your activities/mental_sanity for more money in the short term)

I worked out the other day that if for some (very unlikely) reason I do not receive a bonus this year, I will have been working for less than minimum wage...

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