London Scala User Group Google Group

Re: DevoxxUK (March 26/27th)

araco...@gmail.com (Pere Villega) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:59:48 UT

Enjoy Devoxx tomorrow (pure envy here hehe) and if any of you can spare
some time, I'd love to see some summary about it around ;)

DevoxxUK (March 26/27th)

a...@hicks.net (Andy Hicks) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:08:27 UT

Hi all,

I know that a large number of you have been waiting for this in order to
persuade the powers that be to send you to Devoxx UK (March 26/27th)!

[link]

The London Java Community has just hit 3000 members, we'd love to invite
you to our celebration to showcase the community :-).

Scala group for Midlands (UK)

a...@hicks.net (Andy Hicks) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:26:30 UT

Hi all,

A number of Scala-based startups in Birmingham, UK are aiming to start a
user group for developers in the UK Midlands. If you live in this area and
are interested in attending, please could you fill in the following
questionnaire to help us set a direction for the group:

[link]

matthewtyle...@googlemail.com (Matthew Tyler) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:32:46 UT

[link]

Re: Looking for SCALA experts willing to share their knowledge

arek.stryj...@gmail.com (Arek Stryjski) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:06:13 UT

We're looking for SCALA experts
There is some event today in London you may be interested about
[link]

Best,
Arek

Looking for SCALA experts willing to share their knowledge

editors-...@software.com.pl — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:01:52 UT

Hi,
At first i hope You guys won't get too mad at me for posting this here,but
it seems like a logical place to look for SCALA experts.
My name is Maciej Muszalski and i am writing to You all on behalf of
Software Developer's Journal ( [link]).
We're looking for SCALA experts (documented skills/achievements) who would

Call for London Scala UG Talks for next year

a...@hicks.net (Andy Hicks) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:52:52 UT

Hi All

It would be great if we could find some talks/speakers for the new year.
Are you interested?

The talks can be a work experience (this is how we are using Scala at work)
and a great way of letting everyone know a great company you work for
because they let you use Scala. Or you work on or interested an open source

Re: Scala salaries

sentimental.br...@gmail.com (bryan hunt) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:25:28 UT

Your talk of unfair salaries makes me laugh, life is unfair my friend.

All they know of a potential candidate is:

a) Talk, idle talk.

b) What your previous employer was willing to pay rather than
replacing you with a more compelling prospect.

Unfair is working in a slave labour camp.

Re: Scala salaries

rgomes1...@gmail.com (Richard Gomes) — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:22:58 UT

It's definitely unfair.
They simply apply a magic number and that's it.
It does not mean anything, actually, and do not measure the effort or
potential to achieve results you may have.

Cheers

--
Richard Gomes
Creator of [link]
mobile : +44(77)9955-6813
email : rgomes1...@yahoo.co.uk

Re: Scala salaries

matthewtyle...@googlemail.com (Matthew Tyler) — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:49:19 UT

Some employers will base any offer on your current salary which I feel is a
little unfair.

Going off topic does have a resource that lists companies that are using
Scala in London?

Matt.

Re: Scala salaries

rgomes1...@gmail.com (Richard Gomes) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:27:04 UT

A good source of information, IMHO is itjobswatch.co.uk

[link]

Cheers

--
Richard Gomes
Creator of [link]
mobile : +44(77)9955-6813
email : rgomes1...@yahoo.co.uk
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Re: Scala salaries

mikhail.krivosh...@gmail.com (Mikhail Krivoshein) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:58:04 UT

I don't believe number of years translates into salary quite well. It
is more about skills you managed to acquire and experiences you had on
your path.

Best regards,
Mikhail Krivoshein

Re: Scala salaries

araco...@gmail.com (Pere Villega) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:56:16 UT

Thanks for all the quick answers :)
I won't name and shame, although it's tempting I believe is not worth it.
And yes, I rejected the offer.
I agree with some opinions here that wage is not the only thing that
matters, but I was offered 45k ... a bit too low for my comfort, specially
for London given the cost of live in the city. I can accept less salary for

Re: Scala salaries

peter.pilg...@gmail.com (Peter Pilgrim) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:23:56 UT

With the Keynesian economical model I would agree. Recruitment and
bias and management tend to skew the concept a lot. A lot of this is
the perspective of what value is software developer to the business.
Certainly not at all comparable to brain surgery ;-/

--
Peter Pilgrim,

Re: Scala salaries

matthewtyle...@googlemail.com (Matthew Tyler) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:20:26 UT

Hi,

I would say anywhere between £35k to £150k+ if you are a quant developer at
a hedge fund.

If you aren't going to accept the role how about naming and shaming or at
least giving us an idea of the nature of the role.

Unfortunately for us Scala advocates in London there aren't that many roles